Hardware RAID Controller

[jlb17 at duke.edu (Joshua Baker-LePain)]

On Tue, 10 May 2005 at 8:36pm, Lee W wrote

> Okay I'm getting a bit over my head now.  Anyone see any problems 
> putting 2 of these in the same machine. After a few other comments I was 
> thinking of trying 2 x RAID-1's.

Most (all but one, actually) of my 3ware based servers have multiple cards 
in 'em.  My most recent has two 9500s-12 boards in it (on separate PCI 
busses), each board set to RAID 5 w/ a hot spare, and I do a software 
RAID0 across the two arrays.  Performance (tiobench) graphs here:

http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/tioread.png
http://www.duke.edu/~jlb17/tiowrite.png

In short, it goes fast.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University