Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:02:44 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: vallo@matti.ee Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum (was: RAID) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000905090105.053a13f0@marble.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20000905115126.A14470@myhakas.matti.ee> 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>
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At 11:51 AM 9/5/00 +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
>I spent a week lately trying out vinum with five ATA disks. The mobo had
>ATA-100 capability, so two drives did run at ATA-100, the other ones at
>ATA-66 (two Promise controllers). I pushed the RAID-5 quite hard with
>continous parallel buildworld, two-days running postmark and bonnie++,
>all at the same time. Had no problems, it seems really solid now. The
>disks were IBM DTLA type, 15G.
Thanks! Thats comforting to hear. I have been somewhat disappointed with
entry and medium level hardware RAID products in terms of
price/performance. Given the price penalty of SCSI today, the promise of
vinum is looking more and more attractive.
---Mike
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Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net
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