Re: New 525 install and disk protection

[Keith Carpenter <carpcon@xxxxxxx>]

Kirk Goins wrote:
> I think the consideration here is the fact that the cache on the base 
> raid controller for the CPU is only 40mb. If Joel has one of the newer 
> high performance controllers, they run around 1.5GB of read and write 
> cache. This config put almost all the disk on that larger controller and 
> therefore much better dick performance.

Any comments on whether Joel's 16 disk parity set should be split into 2
 sets of 8 ?

Two sets would trade off capacity and possibly a minimal performance hit
for extra protection.  RAID6 (dual parity) if it were an option, would
be a better choice for a large set.


Keith