Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:

> Ah, this would be a RAID 0+1 setup, then? Very different from Jeff's RAID
> 5 configuration. I'd be willing to believe that software RAID 0+1 _could_
> be faster than most hardware (it's just shuffling and dupping blocks
> around to different drives, which could be done with clever pointer
> twiddling) but calculating parity bits in hardware for RAID 5 had got
> to be a win, doesn't it?

Oops, overlooked the RAID5 issue...sorry about that...

> > setup, same machine, same OS, were net'ng me something like 3MB/s...really
> > killed performance *grin*)
>
> Hmm, bad drives as in broken, or slow?

Slow...they were bought brand new a year ago...Fujitsu's...even a single,
non-stripe'd drive, was performing atrociously...replaced them with
Seagates and the machine flies ...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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