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On Wednesday 01 February 2006 23:41, kashani wrote: |
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> I'd be willing to use the spare Dell 2850 with five drives and a raid |
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> card to do some testing this weekend, but someone will need to offer me |
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> a free sushi dinner or two if I'm right. Any takers? |
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I'm dubious about software RAID being faster, but then when I think about it, |
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the only reason I've ever though hardware was far better was becasuse I was |
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told it was, and it just seems logical. However, I'm open minded - perhaps |
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linux is better at handling disk caching, perhaps parity data can be done |
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faster then a dedicated chip, who knows.... |
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I would like to see an end to the 'my software RAID could have your hardware |
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RAID' and 'my hardware RAID could eat software RAID for breakfast' argument - |
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and I fear the only way to do this is with figures, not stories. |
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Kashani - if you do get round to trying this, I would be interested in your |
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results. I will probably run the tests myself as well at some point with |
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various RAID controllers too to see which preforms best. Either way... can |
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we stop the arguments on the list untill someone has some figures to argue |
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over? :) |
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Kind Regards, |
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Ian P. Christian |
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pookey.co.uk |
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