Thomas Kirk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Hep > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:57:33AM +1300, Jones, Steven wrote: > > > u can get hot swap ide > > > > promise do one (hot swap ide), dunno how good it is mind. > > If you are thinking on this one -> > http://www.promise.com/product/product_detail_eng.asp?productI > d=90&familyId=6 > > Dont buy it! It as simple as that. 1 year ago i bought one of those > bastards from promise and its slooow. Im running it as filer on a > debian 3.0 system filesystem xfs and i havent been able to push it to > a sustain throughput on more than 3MB/sec. This is with 8 > 60GB IBM deskstar > 7200rpm disks in raid5. > [...] > Next time i have to buy ideraid ill try 3ware for sure.
I have one ofe those thingies running our local samba server, raid 5 w/ 3+1 80 Gig 7200 IBM HDDs. Works flawlessly and fast. hdparm shows the following throughput: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.87 seconds =147.13 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.31 seconds = 48.85 MB/sec This is on a dual PIII/500 w/ 256 MB. Not the cheapest one, but it's actually worth it. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
