From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Katarina WONG" Subject: Re: Q: RAID-1 w/2x160GB, ReiserFS, Debian 'woody', homebrew 2.4.25 kernel Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 14:49:51 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <200408051338.02365.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200408051338.02365.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 13:38:02 +0100, Mark Watts =20 wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >> I'm still a bit torn between buying a 3ware hardware RAID for =A4140= =2E- and >> just using 'md'. The box is an Athlon64 3GHz, so it'll have enough C= PU >> power to do the RAID in software, but with partitioning etc, I think= the >> hardware raid will be easier to handle because you can just ignore i= t. =20 >> As >> long as the 3ware BIOS will handle failing drives, read/write errors= , =20 >> etc >> etc. properly. > > 3ware (8506-4LP) is performing very badly here on Dual Opteron so I =20 > wouldn't > recomend it. > Even a software raid-5 with the 3ware in jbod mode wasn't great. > I recon that Jens was talking from a functional standpoint (hotspare, =20 auto-rebuild, etc...). I too would be interested in hearing your =20 experience on these. Also, can you expand on your "bad performance" =20 statement ? Thx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html