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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:42:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      <scanner@jurai.net>
To:        Ed Henderson <Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net>
Cc:        "'Bob Martin'" <bob@inu.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Good server motherboard?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103271239230.75629-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <002f01c0b6dd$8538e560$0464a8c0@pnt004>

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On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Ed Henderson wrote:

> You mention that I should consider software RAID if I only need level 1.  How much processing overhead is there?  My system will be running with a single 1.2GHz Athlon CPU.

	Software RAID like Vinum has proven to be faster then HW
RAID. Mainly because of HW Raid card's using poorly sized stripes. There
is a benchmark test of Vinum vs some DPT Cards that brad knowles put on
the web. If you want the URL I would be happy to dig it up for you. Vinum
is FAST++, and you can enable softupdates on Vinum as well. So you get
speed and reliability. And I use this combo on alot of Postfix mail
servers for the mail queue. I couldn't be happier. Vinum is
incredible. Now I just have to keep working on some decent doc's for it
:-)


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