Re: [gentoo-server] The Great RAID debate

2006-02-09 Thread JD Gray
Ramon von Alteren wrote: Dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz 2Gb RAM 1 ATA 40Gb system disk 24 465Gb SATA disks 2 3ware 9550SX-12MI controllers with 224Mb Config: 2 RAID-50 arrays of 12 disks each. Glued together in a single LVM volume of 9Tb There are few things I wouldn't do to get my hands on t

Re: [gentoo-server] The Great RAID debate

2006-02-08 Thread kashani
Jesse, Rich wrote: Any results from this, kashani? Sounded interesting... I've always hated tests on tiny little boxes with 512MB and a single PIII. However i can see the attraction because it hard to generate enough load to get useful numbers with big box. Naturally things have gotten bigg

Re: [gentoo-server] The Great RAID debate

2006-02-08 Thread Ramon van Alteren
kashani wrote: Having shot my mouth and hoping to extort some sushi the hardware vs software raid testing should be happening this Sunday. It'll be like the Super Bowl, but for sysadmin geeks. With a weekly growth-rate of 250+Gb and less than 400G left on my storage I don't have that muc

RE: [gentoo-server] The Great RAID debate

2006-02-08 Thread Jesse, Rich
Any results from this, kashani? Sounded interesting... Rich -Original Message- From: kashani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 3:52 PM To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-server] The Great RAID debate Having shot my mouth and hoping to

[gentoo-server] The Great RAID debate

2006-02-03 Thread kashani
Having shot my mouth and hoping to extort some sushi the hardware vs software raid testing should be happening this Sunday. It'll be like the Super Bowl, but for sysadmin geeks. The setup: Dell 2850 2 x Xeon 3GHz w/2MB 6 GB RAM in 1GB sticks 5 x 73GB 10k U320 PE