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From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-hw@sixforty.co.uk>
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Subject: RE: 3ware stuff not ready for heavy duty useage-followup
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:50:53 +0100
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Yep, Im aware of that. Just trying to squeeze the most out of it,
And I am open to suggestions on tuning. 

It's still as fast as my external HW raid's.....

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Borja Marcos [mailto:borjamar@sarenet.es] 
>Sent: 23 August 2001 12:10
>To: Lawrence Farr
>Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: 3ware stuff not ready for heavy duty useage-followup
>
>
>On Thursday 23 August 2001 13:05, you wrote:
>
>> Anyone got any ideas for tuning this? Or is that it performance wise?
>> How about splitting the drives to 4 stripe sets, and Raid 5 
>across them
>> with vinum?
>
>	Raid5 is fast reading (same as a stripping) but writes 
>are not so fast, as 
>the system needs to calculate and write parity data.
>
>
>
>
>	Borja.
>


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