Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:01:17 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>, "chat@FreeBSD.ORG" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Christopher Masto" <chris@netmonger.net> Subject: Re: 3ware IDE Raid. SCSI killer? Message-ID: <v04220806b5bed22cfae6@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <200008150800.EAA04831@sanson.reyes.somos.net> References: <200008150800.EAA04831@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
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At 4:17 AM -0400 2000/8/15, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I totally agree. I only tried Vinum once and did not loose any > data (test system) but it was frustrating. > > The cost of a 3ware is low enough that I would only consider > Vinum if I read that it has become idiot proof to install it. Vinum striping and mirroring are pretty bulletproof in operation. The configuration of vinum still leaves something to be desired, but once you've got it configured, it just plain works. I'm doing vinum striping on our anonymous ftp servers (where I'm pulling out a DPT SmartRAID V hardware RAID controller, because the drivers for it have gotten difficult enough to apply to more recent versions of our OS that the machine is no longer reliable enough), our news peering server, our news spool server, and I'll almost certainly make use of it elsewhere as well. However, I'm still not comfortable enough with vinum RAID-5 to use it in production. > I also expect SCSI raid controllers to start coming down in > price to compete with the IDE RAID systems coming out in the > market. I'm sure they will, at least some. However, I think that the IDE RAID controllers will continue to inhabit a lower-cost/lower-performance niche than SCSI RAID controllers, and where many manufacturers of the latter are going to continue to focus their attention is on the high-end, where absolute maximum performance and reliability are still worth a very high premium. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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