Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:37:32 -0800 From: Kingson Gunawan <kingson@excite.com> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any luck with DPT SmartRaid 4 and SMP FreeBSD-current??? Message-ID: <34591A3C.B81619A2@excite.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030153103.29039H-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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Hi Tom, I am planning to use RAID 0 (no mirroring), just a straight stripping. BTW, potentially, I will need to grow the array up to around 120GB. However, that's somewhat in the future. This array will be read intensive. Kingson Tom wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Kingson Gunawan wrote: > > > I am planning to configure a huge (20+GB)RAID volume, and just happen to > > have a DPT controller sitting around. Have anyone done this > > successfully? Is this a better config compared to using ccd? > > 20GB is pretty small for drive arrays. Compared to ccd? Well, it can > RAID5 which ccd can't, but write performance suffers a bit in RAID5. > > If you have 6 or 10 drives, you might might to make two RAID5 arrays, > and then use ccd on them. > > But it all depends on what you want to do, and what RAID level you are > going to use. > > > Kingson > > > > > > Tom
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