From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 16: 8:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (kypo.alfred.cx [150.101.93.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B09F37B406 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:08:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from percible.alfred.cx (percible.alfred.cx [150.101.93.190]) by mail.plug.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 046DD2B8C8; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 08:39:34 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: vinum From: Andrew Reid To: Joe Clarke Cc: Walter Betancourt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010904225609.U95138-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20010904225609.U95138-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <999693115.2391.762.camel@percible.alfred.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution/0.12.99 (Preview Release) Date: 06 Sep 2001 08:37:09 +0930 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04 Sep 2001 22:59:07 -0400, Joe Clarke wrote: > Dell PERC RAID controller, and it worked rather nicely. Honestly, I > haven't done any speed comparisons between Vinum and hardware RAID. >From talking to Grog, as well as viewing the information on the Vinum website, the speed of Vinum can be quite considerably faster than "Hardware" RAID cards. I seem to recall Grog using words to the effect of "... I've tested a Vinum RAID-5 Array on a 486 DX2 66MHz and not noticed any performance issues..." The Vinum website has some interesting data on it regarding performance, you'll find it at http://www.vinumvm.org/ - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl ; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message