Re: Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

Although I for one have yet to see a controller that actualy does this (I
believe software RAID on linux doesn't either).

Alex.

On 8/7/06, Markus Schaber <schabi(at)logix-tt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Hi, Charles,
>
> Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> > I've also got a 1U with a 9500SX-4 and 4 drives. I like how the 3Ware
> > card scales there - started with 2 drives and got "drive speed"
> > mirroring. Added two more and most of the bonnie numbers doubled. This
> > is not what I'm used to with the Adaptec SCSI junk.
>
> Well, for sequential reading, you should be able to get double drive
> speed on a 2-disk mirror with a good controller, as it can balance the
> reads among the drives.
>
> Markus
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