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Date:      Thu, 7 May 2009 11:41:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Paul Patterson <pathiaki2@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>, Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch>, Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@seattlefenix.net>, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data
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> If you aren't using ZFS, or even a GEOM volume with mirror/RAID5/softup/etc,
> you cannot make the statement that hardware RAID is faster.  I learned 
> that 3 years ago.

i state exactly opposite. all hardware raid cards are made just to suck 
money from those who believe in it.

like "performance is not enough - buy better/more expensive model."

> This does not go for EMC, IBM, Hitachi high-end storage arrays where you write to TBs of RAM Cache.
having same amount of extra memory on FreeBSD server directly will make 
better use of it.


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