On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 08:29:47PM -0700, Scott Laird wrote:
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> >
> > On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Andrew B. Cramer wrote:
> > >
> > > You would get good performance if you used a multi-channel controler.
>
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Andrew B. Cramer wrote:
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> You would get good performance if you used a multi-channel controler.
>
> (.02) - Andy
>
I doubt it -- I got about the same performance with a 3-channel version of
the same card. Search dejanews for details, or ask me and I'll resend my
last p
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Michael Tibor wrote:
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> > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Stanley, Jeremy wrote:
> >
> > > I believe it is 66MBps per channel, but keep in mind that Ultra2 SCSI
> > > runs 80MBps per device and has been around for a couple of years.
> > > Ultra
On Wed, 26 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Yes, I guess you're right that the way raid-1 stripes the reads doesn't
> necessarily yield higher read performance after all... Here's a little
> test I did:
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> raid-0 on two disks:
> ---Sequential Output ---Sequent
I have an 11 disk RAID5 set working with the new RAID code.
Scott
On Sat, 22 May 1999, Dietmar Stein wrote:
> Hi Tod
>
> I do not see any mistake; from the theory of raid5 you should be able to
> set a raid5
> with 8 disks or more.
> Maybe I am wrong.
>
> Sorry that I can't help you further.
You should probably also either test it with a non-DPT SCSI controller, or
test a single disk by itself, to try to factor out the DPT's SCSI
performance as a consideration.
Scott
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Josh Fishman wrote:
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> Seth Vidal wrote:
> >
> > I've mostly been a lurker but recent change
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Seriously, if anyone can submit a benchmark (bonnie & hdparm -t, or others of your
> choices), that shows a HW RAID that runs faster than SW RAID, on the same disks,
> CPU, memory, board, etc, I'd be very happy to see it.
>
> I've seen a few ex
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Piete Brooks wrote:
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> I'm a fan of SW RAID (a motherboard with 3 LVD busses, 2 EIDE busses, and 1 W
> bus kind of satisfies our disk IO requirements), but I've being pressured to
> buy some HW RAID for our "main" NFS servers.
>
> The suggestion is either AMI 438 (which
