Hardware RAID Controller

[chrism at imntv.com (Chris Mauritz)]

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>


Wow, quite fast.  I hadn't realised that XFS was so much faster than 
EXT3.  I guess that's a compelling answer to the thread from yesterday 
or the day before about why people switch from EXT3 to XFS.

Cheers,

C