Re: RAID battery-backed cache - necessary? (was: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 35)

2010-02-10 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Adam Nielsen wrote: > This is perhaps off-topic too, but I have always wondered... > >> You might also want to look at getting a hardware RAID card or >> daughterboard like the PERC-6i - these will allow you to set up a >> RAID-10/50/60 that will stripe all data between t

RE: RAID battery-backed cache - necessary? (was: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 35)

2010-02-10 Thread Ryan Miller
010 7:32 PM > To: linux-poweredge@dell.com > Subject: Re: RAID battery-backed cache - necessary? (was: Linux- > PowerEdge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 35) > > This is perhaps off-topic too, but I have always wondered... > > > You might also want to look at getting a hardware RAID ca

RE: RAID battery-backed cache - necessary? (was: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 35)

2010-02-10 Thread Mann, Andrew
- From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of Adam Nielsen Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:32 PM To: linux-poweredge@dell.com Subject: Re: RAID battery-backed cache - necessary? (was: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 35) This is

Re: RAID battery-backed cache - necessary? (was: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 35)

2010-02-10 Thread Adam Nielsen
This is perhaps off-topic too, but I have always wondered... > You might also want to look at getting a hardware RAID card or > daughterboard like the PERC-6i - these will allow you to set up a > RAID-10/50/60 that will stripe all data between two drives, giving you > another twofold speed incr

Re: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 68, Issue 35

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Dupuy
John Heim writes: > I hope this is not too far off topic (maybe its considered on topic [I > hope]). > Makes a nice change from the "third-party drives" thread :-) > I think we can get a machine with a quad core, 32 Gb of RAM, and 300 Gb disk > for under $6000. But I'm confused about disk. I