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). ... > 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090824/57e846ed/attachment-0005.sig>