Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

2007-09-27 Thread John Bowden
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 15:24:48 Mark Foster wrote: > John Bowden wrote: > > What can I use to benchmark the different raid set ups. I could do an all > > software raid trial and then an all hardware raid set up, (fresh install > > each time) and find out which is the best for my set up. Bear

Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

2007-09-25 Thread Mark Foster
John Bowden wrote: What can I use to benchmark the different raid set ups. I could do an all software raid trial and then an all hardware raid set up, (fresh install each time) and find out which is the best for my set up. Bear in mind I still think of myself as a Linux newbie (and a CentOS vir

Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

2007-09-25 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 24 September 2007 12:33:39 William Warren wrote: > I mistyped..hardware raid is the way to go. FRIAD will perform worse > than Linux software raid most times..:) > > Feizhou wrote: > > William Warren wrote: > >> actually it'll perform WORSE in many cases than Linux software raid. > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

2007-09-24 Thread William Warren
I mistyped..hardware raid is the way to go. FRIAD will perform worse than Linux software raid most times..:) Feizhou wrote: William Warren wrote: actually it'll perform WORSE in many cases than Linux software raid. Used to (bar buggy firmware, incompatibilities). Most hardware raid cards n

Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

2007-09-23 Thread Feizhou
William Warren wrote: actually it'll perform WORSE in many cases than Linux software raid. Used to (bar buggy firmware, incompatibilities). Most hardware raid cards nowadays not only have sufficient processing power, they also come with decent sizes of RAM cache which helps swing things a lot

Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

2007-09-22 Thread William Warren
actually it'll perform WORSE in many cases than Linux software raid. Scott Silva wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the following on 9/21/2007 2:43 AM: Exactly how much throughput are you realistically anticipating? What connection are you going to use? 802.11 or 10/100 or gige? And yes, the ch

[CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

2007-09-21 Thread Scott Silva
[EMAIL PROTECTED] spake the following on 9/21/2007 2:43 AM: Exactly how much throughput are you realistically anticipating? What connection are you going to use? 802.11 or 10/100 or gige? And yes, the chips will pretty much always give you better performance with raid. Hardware raid gives b