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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
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       "RAID Controller Product" (Oct  1,  4:05pm)
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} Does anyone know of a good scsi-to-scsi RAID controller that can do RAID
} level 5 and that would be great for a file server application.  I'm
} presently using disk ccd for our news servers.  Each server carries the
} same information, so I'm looking to consoladate the information on one
} fileserver. 
} 
} Looking into Mylex's DAC960SI, which seems to be a good product (on 
} paper).  Has anyone had experience with the Mylex product or any other 
} that you might want to recommend.
} 

Be careful.  From what I've heard here ccd does a good job of increasing
performance.  Don't expect that from your average cheap RAID controller.

RAID 5 is a compute-intensive system.  It can be made fast, but at this
stage many aren't.

Mylex RAIDs I've looked at haven't been any faster than the component
drives.


Richard