Scott Silva wrote:
I wonder if you guys might have different firmware revs.
Or my machine could have just been having a hissy fit, on soft reboot. Things go awry with tech all the time, not worth worrying about. :)
The 9550 allegedly has better performance for RAID5 so I'm hoping those work out OK.
I had to use the 9500's because of the servers they were put in. They are too old for PCI-X.
...and mine has been around for awhile, a 9550 that fit the bill wasn't a reality. I would love the better performance, but this is just a backup-to-disk machine so it can take all night/day for what I care.
Here are two sample stat numbers out of Arkeia NetBackup that are from last night. First, tons and tons of small files, so lots of network overhead and whatnot:
"879073" files, "1045" MB, compressed at "1.3", "4008" seconds, "15" MB/mn
Then a few very large files, so it's all streaming and writing to disk in a continuous flow over a single 100mbit link:
"5" files, "7333" MB, compressed at "2.0", "368" seconds, "1195" MB/mn
-te