From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 27 10:54:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E79237B719 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18085 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:56:19 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010327141111.03acb370@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:12:02 -0500 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dennis Subject: RE: Good server motherboard? In-Reply-To: References: <002f01c0b6dd$8538e560$0464a8c0@pnt004> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:42 PM 03/27/2001, you wrote: >On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Ed Henderson wrote: > > > You mention that I should consider software RAID if I only need level > 1. How much processing overhead is there? My system will be running > with a single 1.2GHz Athlon CPU. > > Software RAID like Vinum has proven to be faster then HW >RAID. Mainly because of HW Raid card's using poorly sized stripes. There >is a benchmark test of Vinum vs some DPT Cards that brad knowles put on >the web. If you want the URL I would be happy to dig it up for you. Vinum >is FAST++, and you can enable softupdates on Vinum as well. So you get >speed and reliability. And I use this combo on alot of Postfix mail >servers for the mail queue. I couldn't be happier. Vinum is >incredible. Now I just have to keep working on some decent doc's for it >:-) Will the machine boot off of the second drive if the first one fails? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message