Re: Vinum RAID5 speed question

2003-09-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 13:22:09 +0200, Martin Brecher wrote: > Hi, - > > I plan on setting up a vinum RAID5 array of three 120GB IDE disks. The > disks will be attached to two Promise 100 TX2 controllers, on which two > other disks are residing, too. > > The following questions have come t

Vinum RAID5 speed question

2003-09-26 Thread Martin Brecher
Hi, - I plan on setting up a vinum RAID5 array of three 120GB IDE disks. The disks will be attached to two Promise 100 TX2 controllers, on which two other disks are residing, too. The following questions have come to my mind: 1. I thought about getting disks with 8MB cache. Does the bigger cac