From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 5 16:19: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3170837B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e85NIZc48773; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:48:35 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:48:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Tim Tsai , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum (was: RAID) Message-ID: <20000906084835.B21113@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <4.2.2.20000903213318.074039f0@mail.sentex.net> <00090310375700.05988@www.runapplications.com> <4.2.2.20000904120154.07455bd0@mail.sentex.net> <20000905101653.A49732@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000904204407.033e2920@mail.sentex.net> <20000905115126.A14470@myhakas.matti.ee> <4.3.2.7.0.20000905090105.053a13f0@marble.sentex.ca> <20000905155032.A27690@futuresouth.com> <4.3.2.7.0.20000905165313.037652c0@marble.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000905165313.037652c0@marble.sentex.ca>; from mike@sentex.net on Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:56:46PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 5 September 2000 at 16:56:46 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 03:50 PM 9/5/00 -0500, Tim Tsai wrote: >>> Thanks! Thats comforting to hear. I have been somewhat disappointed with >>> entry and medium level hardware RAID products in terms of >>> price/performance. >> >> Have you tried the new DPT driver yet? Just curious. > > I have used and tried the following > DAC960 PB,PL > Megaraid 466, 1428 > 3ware 2 and 4 port UDMA 33 series cards > > Just about to test and compare the same Atlas IV drives (QUANTUM ATLAS IV 9 > WLS 0B0B) usings a 2940U2 (aic7890/91) with vinum. I will post the results > with the same three SCSI drives in the various adaptors in RAID5 (3 drive > config) when done. Please make sure to use rawio in the tests. Other things, such as bonnie and dd, give better looking results, but they're not very related to what happens in practice. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message