Re: Best RAID setup

2006-12-29 Thread Dominic Marks
Benjamin, Consider that you don't have to raid the entire disc, so you could create make one volume for performance which is stripped over all three discs and have another area for security is a mirror, raid3, raid5, etc. Dom ___ freebsd-performance

Timing/Interrupt issues under load on Dual Xeon Supermicro board

2006-12-29 Thread Aaron Pratt
My company recently purchased several Silicon Mechanics servers with the Supermicro X7DBR-i+ motherboards. They run the intel 5000P chipset. Two dual-core 3.0ghz processors in each. 3ware SATA RAID controllers (twa). I installed 6-STABLE (6.2-PRERELEASE). Under very heavy CPU load on one or more o

Re: Best RAID setup

2006-12-29 Thread R. B. Riddick
--- Benjamin D Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have three SATA drives (750 GB Barracuda 7200) I'm trying to > figureout the best raid configuration for this. > I'm looking for great preformance but I also want to so if one of the > drives dies. I can remove it and the other two will work fin

Best RAID setup

2006-12-29 Thread Benjamin D Adams
I have three SATA drives (750 GB Barracuda 7200) I'm trying to figureout the best raid configuration for this. I'm looking for great preformance but I also want to so if one of the drives dies. I can remove it and the other two will work fine. Then when I buy a new drive I can just add it to the