In my testing, I had 8x 18G LVD Quantum drives. With the same batch
of drives, Vinum would deliver 35M/s reads and the AMI MegaRAID 1400
would deliver 14M/s reads. We're talking about a straight bonnie
test, writing 5G files.
The machine in question had 768M of RAM and the AMI 1400 had 64M of
Brad Knowles wrote:
At 1:55 AM -0400 2000/5/3, spork wrote:
Last I looked though, vinum cannot protect you from loss of your boot
device.
I am told that in FreeBSD 4.0, vinum now has the ability to
mirror the root filesystem. I don't know if this addresses the issue
you are
At 1:19 PM -0400 2000/5/3, Charles N. Owens wrote:
Do you have any pointers to such information (ideally, something like a
"how-to")?
Greg is the one who told me about it, and this was the kicker
behind my finally getting off my butt and giving 4.0 a try, although
I have yet to
At 12:31 PM -0400 2000/4/29, Brandon D. Valentine wrote:
I can definitely appreciate that. The RAID solution of choice for
FreeBSD appears to be SCSI-SCSI RAID adapters as utilized on
wcarchive.cdrom.com and ftp.freesoftware.org -- the two busiest ftp
archives around and consequently
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| If that's what they say, I'd be inclined to believe them. Since I've
not
| encountered any fatal problems with the 2.x firmware, I can't suggest
| that upgrading would actually win you very much.
I'm not even sure the HPDA
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:13:37 PDT, Mike Smith wrote:
You leave out "how well you want it to perform" as well. All other
things being equal, the PCI:SCSI adapters will give you better bang for
your buck.
Out of curiosity, how would a PCI-RAID (SCSI) adapter compare with
vanilla
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| If that's what they say, I'd be inclined to believe them. Since I've
not
| encountered any fatal problems with the 2.x firmware, I can't suggest
| that upgrading would actually win you very much.
I'm not even sure
