Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:14:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum (was: RAID) Message-ID: <20000905111419.H49732@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000904205235.0337b050@mail.sentex.net>; from mike@sentex.net on Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 08:55:10PM -0400 References: <4.2.2.20000904204407.033e2920@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000904120154.07455bd0@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <00090310375700.05988@www.runapplications.com> <4.2.2.20000904120154.07455bd0@mail.sentex.net> <20000905101653.A49732@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000904204407.033e2920@mail.sentex.net> <20000905102514.D49732@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000904205235.0337b050@mail.sentex.net>
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On Monday, 4 September 2000 at 20:55:10 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 10:25 AM 9/5/2000 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> BTW, is vinum in theory and practice as stable on ata drives as on >>> SCSI ? >> >> Yes. Make sure you don't have more than one drive per controller, or >> performance will suffer. > > I ordered 2 surplus ATA66 controllers for $35CDN on Friday. To start with > 3 drives in RAID 5 I guess... Hmmm, actually if one drive in theory is > slower (ata 33) will that cause me problems ? Well, it will limit performance, but that's all. You'll still get marginally better performance from an ATA 33 and an ATA 66 than you would from two ATA 33s. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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