Re: Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-16 Thread Gregory Leblanc
James Manning wrote: [ Thursday, January 13, 2000 ] Gregory Leblanc wrote: Since this list appears to be a good place for general RAID on Linux (or Linux on RAID?) questions, I thought I'd ask. What do people think of the StrongARM vs. the i960? Our i960 based cards scream, but we

Re: Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-16 Thread jlewis
On 14 Jan 2000, Chris Good wrote: Much, much better - we've taken all the i960 cards out of our systems and replaced them with strongarm based ones. Needless to say we shant be buying any more i960 cards and our supplier is talking about stopping shipping them as the perform so much

Re: Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-15 Thread Jason Clifford
On 14 Jan 2000, Chris Good wrote: Much, much better - we've taken all the i960 cards out of our systems and replaced them with strongarm based ones. Needless to say we shant be buying any more i960 cards and our supplier is talking about stopping shipping them as the perform so much

Re: Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-15 Thread Chris Good
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Manning wrote: Although I haven't digged into results, the only i960 that seems worth running for a RAID5 is the one (-RN I think?) with the embedded XOR engine. Otherwise your XOR operations will do much better on the StrongARM running at typically 2x the

Hardware RAID chips

2000-01-14 Thread Gregory Leblanc
Since this list appears to be a good place for general RAID on Linux (or Linux on RAID?) questions, I thought I'd ask. What do people think of the StrongARM vs. the i960? Our i960 based cards scream, but we don't have any StrongARM yet (although I could probably get some if the performance is