[rescue] RE: somewhat OT: secondary market storage?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:36:06PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 13:54, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 10:17:11PM +0100, Chris Byrne wrote:
> 
> I think you guys have too much budget...  :)  For what it's worth, Linux
> software RAID outperforms every in-box RAID controller that I've found
> (in box meaning on a PCI card, or the like).

This assumes that we aren't talking about Raid 3 or 5.  I've seen benchmarks
for hardware raid5 being faster for inbox raid (using AMI controller).

That said, my approach on current file server project (for various reasons this
became an urgent need so that I can repurpose the current fileserver), I'm 
going with raid 0+1 since older scsi disks are cheap, I have several chasis
for them, and CPU mirroring and striping is quite fast.

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Joshua D. Boyd