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To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: RAID
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 10:31:06 -0500
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I have vinum running on a free mail server in a Raid 5 configuration, It is a
lot faster than low end hardware raid solutions. The machine has 2 cpus (Abit
dual celeron motherboard) so Raid 5 calculation is not a problem.
Hope this helps.

On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Mike Tancsa wrote: > I am putting together a new POP3
server and am looking at various RAID  > solutions.  I have a couple of boxes
deployed using 3ware IDE controllers  > as well as a Mylex DAC960 and a
MegaRAID 428.  For RAID0, the 3ware cards  > seem to perform quite well (I am
using them for USENET and proxy  > servers).  But for the POP3, I need
something with a little more  > performance than I seem to get with the 3ware,
Mylex and MegaRAID cards.  > (The 3ware is *REALLY* slow in RAID1, dont know
about RAID 10). Has anyone  > tried the new Adaptec 2100S cards ? I dont want
to shell out $500 bucks if  > they are not that much better than the DAC960s. 
What about vinum ? Is  > anyone using it in a production machine ? Is it
reliable and ready for  > prime time ? I want to do either RAID5 or 10 in order
to get speed and  > reliability. > 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	---Mike
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mike Tancsa,                          	          tel +1 519 651 3400
> Network Administration,     			  mike@sentex.net
> Sentex Communications                 		  www.sentex.net
> Cambridge, Ontario Canada			  www.sentex.net/mike
> 
> 
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