Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:43:32 GMT
From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To: fran@reyes.somos.net ("Francisco Reyes")
Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 3ware anyone ?
Message-ID: <39b1821a.943974072@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.967876932.307161292@news.sentex.net>
References: <200009012058.NAA06031@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <SEN.967876932.307161292@news.sentex.net>
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On 2 Sep 2000 02:42:13 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: What sorts of speeds are you getting with RAID 1 and 10 ? I gave up on the card for that configuration because it was incredibly slow. RAID 0 is great, but I was quite disappointed in the speed of the mirror. What sort of results do you get with bonnie ? ---Mike >On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:58:44 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > >>> Wondering if anyone out there is using a 3ware IDE RAID card >>> (Specifically the Escalade 6400) in a fault-tolerant setup? > >Setting one up this Sunday. >Will report back. > > >>I've had some reports of problems in RAID10 mode, where the array doesn't >>like being installed onto until it's finished building itself out. I'm >>working on that at the moment. > >Mike can you expand on this? >What do you mean by "until it's finished building itself out"? >If I do the Alt+3 and do the partitions and wait until all is >initialized and then >try the FreeBSD install would I be ok? > >For the machine I am setting up Sunday I am doing Raid 0 (2 >drives) and Raid 1 (another 2 drives) >so this "issue" won't affect me yet, but I have a machine on >order where I was planning on doing Raid 10. > > >>willing to provide reasonable problem reports so that things can be fixed >>quickly, I'd say you'll be fine. > >Mike anything you would like me to try? >Any recommended benchmarks? >I plan to do a bonnie on the machine before and after RAID, but >I am wondering >if there is any other good test(s). Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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