Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:57:00 -0500 From: "Peter C. Lai" <sirmoo@cowbert.2y.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid Message-ID: <20050216065700.GB20992@cowbert.2y.net>
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I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the native card. Is this true? Should I not bother with doing the hardware raid and just go with vinum? The rest of the system is a k6-2 400mhz with 256mb ram (amount might change). I will also have moderate network i/o on the pci bus (obviously). TIA, cowbert -- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology Yale University School of Medicine SenseLab | Research Assistant http://cowbert.2y.net/
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