From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 5 6: 8: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B4437B43F for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 06:08:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e85D7oE25460; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 09:07:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000905090105.053a13f0@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:02:44 -0400 To: vallo@matti.ee From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Vinum (was: RAID) Cc: Greg Lehey , stable@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications mike@sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message