On Friday 21 August 2009, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom:
On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast.
Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something better next time, what have you found equally reliable but faster?
Nothing as cheap as a full dl185 that's for sure unless you count SUNs thor (thumper ng) machines but then you'll have to do the raid part in software somehow.
Yeah, but that is as easy as zpool create tank raidz2 dev1 dev2 dev3 dev4 dev5 dev6 etc. zfs create tank/bigdisk
Well, this being the CentOS mailing list I kind of assumed the OP was planning to run Linux on it and last I checked that did not include a production worthy zfs (if one at all).
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If you really want to go with a HW controller, try Areca or the high- end 3Ware models.
We have lots of 3ware. They work but when they exhibit problems it's, IMHO, a lot worse to diagnose/fix. Also, in my experience, both Areca and 3ware almost needs XFS to run fast (sequential I/O wise).
/Peter