FW: Horribly bad RAID performance with PERC2 (AMI Megaraid)

1999-07-19 Thread Ken Cornetet
400MHz with 256MB ram. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Laird Sent: Saturday, July 17, 1999 1:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Horribly bad RAID performance with PERC2 (AMI Megaraid) On Sat, 17 Jul

Re: FW: Horribly bad RAID performance with PERC2 (AMI Megaraid)

1999-07-19 Thread Mike Frisch
Ken Cornetet wrote: I have a DPT SMartRaid IV (32MB cache) with 3 wide channels controlling 4 Seagate 18GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration. Under Linux (Redhat 6.0) I only see about 8MB/sec reads and 2.5MB/sec writes. Under NT I see about 8MB for reads and writes. I haven't heard much about

Re: Horribly bad RAID performance with PERC2 (AMI Megaraid)

1999-07-17 Thread jakob
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 08:29:47PM -0700, Scott Laird wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Andrew B. Cramer wrote: 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

Re: Horribly bad RAID performance with PERC2 (AMI Megaraid)

1999-07-17 Thread Scott Laird
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 08:29:47PM -0700, Scott Laird wrote: On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Andrew B. Cramer wrote: You would get good performance if you used a multi-channel controler. (.02) - Andy I doubt it -- I got about the

Re: Horribly bad RAID performance with PERC2 (AMI Megaraid)

1999-07-15 Thread Andrew B. Cramer
You would get good performance if you used a multi-channel controler. (.02) - Andy I get really bad performance with the PERC2-SC (single channel) controller, using the Bonnie benchmark. In fact a Pentium with 64 Mbytes and an IDE controller with a singel disk outperforms the measured

Re: Horribly bad RAID performance with PERC2 (AMI Megaraid)

1999-07-15 Thread Brian Haymore
"Andrew B. Cramer" wrote: You would get good performance if you used a multi-channel controler. (.02) - Andy I see no reason to require the use of multiple channels to get good performance. I am using an eXtremeRAID controller from Mylex. I built a machine with the 3 channel version of

Re: Horribly bad RAID performance with PERC2 (AMI Megaraid)

1999-07-15 Thread Scott Laird
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Andrew B. Cramer wrote: 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 post.