Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 11:51:01 +0000 From: sean <sean3r@cfl.rr.com> To: Courtney Thomas <ccthomas@flash.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise UDMA66 raid modifications Message-ID: <3A28E225.2C39FFD7@cfl.rr.com> References: <3A2851B5.E5EB69F@cfl.rr.com> <3A26D2E0.167EB0E7@flash.net>
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Courtney Thomas wrote: > > Good Morning ! > > Hopefully you can ease my ignorance, in that I too would welcome > inexpensive hardware raid5, but primarily for data integrity, not > performance. > > But, as I understand it, a modern cpu is so much faster than when hdw > raid made sense, in that it was relatively, at that time, a much faster > application, that it was cost/performance effective. Since slow ide > drives/cpu made scsi raid appealing then, fast cpus [500mhz&up] and > software raid now, oldstyle scsi/hdw raid can only with difficulty be > cost justified, except for the most demanding applications. > > All that said, if there is no software to enhance the controller change, > other than Vinum, which is usable with the unaltered card, why change it > ? > > How would it function better, since I assume you would still use Vinum, > or is this wrong ? > > Kind regards, > > Courtney > > <----------------End of Msg---------------------- > hello, thanks for your quick repsonses. Well, it wasnt so much really that i wanted to get any more data integrity or performance out of my box. i bought the card a few months ago off and friend, and it came obsolete when i bought a new motherboard that supported UDMA66 anyway, i was just doing it for fun (besides the fact i wouldnt trust any hardware *I* modified to go into a production server) :) i was just wondering if i could get some more use out of an old card. thanks for helping though. sean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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