From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Apr 11 19: 9:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6388737B423 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:09:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9DBBA6ACB8; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:39:22 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:39:22 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Simon Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID 5 Message-ID: <20010412113922.D48878@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010411160513.A64E737B423@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010411160513.A64E737B423@hub.freebsd.org>; from simon@optinet.com on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:09:53PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 11 April 2001 at 12:09:53 -0400, Simon wrote: > > Does anyone know if it's ok to mix drives with different amount of > cache in RAID-5 ? It shouldn't make any serious difference. You should have write cacheing turned off anyway, but even if you don't, I'd expect the cache size not to be an issue. There's a probability that the smallest cache size will dominate the performance, of course. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message