11 May
2005
11 May
'05
12:41 p.m.
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Most (all but one, actually) of my 3ware based servers have multiple cards in 'em. My most recent has two 9500s-12 boards in it (on separate PCI busses), each board set to RAID 5 w/ a hot spare, and I do a software RAID0 across the two arrays. Performance (tiobench) graphs here:
http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/tioread.png http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/tiowrite.png
In short, it goes fast.
Wow, quite fast. I hadn't realised that XFS was so much faster than EXT3. I guess that's a compelling answer to the thread from yesterday or the day before about why people switch from EXT3 to XFS.
Cheers,
C