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From: Chris Allen <chris@cjx.com>
To: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Multiple raids on one machine?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:47:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <449F9F05.8030001@cjx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0606260847470.370@lion.drogon.net>



Gordon Henderson wrote:
> I use option 2 (above) all the time, and I've never noticed any
> performance issues. (not issues with recovery after a power failure) I'd
> like to think that on a modern processor the CPU can handle the parity,
> etc. calculations several orders of magnitude faster than the hardware can
> chug data to & from the drives, so all it's really adding is a tiny bit of
> latency...
>
>   

Thanks for this, and for the very informed responses from other 
subscribers. We have gone from
100GB of storage in May 2000 (which lasted us over a year) to 50TB today 
(which will last us
three months), and a forecast of 200TB by this time next year! I'm 
learning fast :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-26  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-25 22:37 Multiple raids on one machine? Chris Allen
2006-06-25 22:44 ` Jim Buttafuoco
2006-06-25 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-26  0:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-26  8:05 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-06-26  8:47   ` Chris Allen [this message]
2006-06-27  9:56 ` Nix
2006-06-27 11:33   ` Chris Allen
2006-06-27 16:08     ` Nix

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