From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 4 18:44:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F00CD37B422 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:44:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e851iJv44537; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:14:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 11:14:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Tancsa Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum (was: RAID) Message-ID: <20000905111419.H49732@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i 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 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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