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From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Feizhou
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 9:35 AM
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Subject: Re: Software Raid 6
Feizhou wrote:
> Juan C. Valido wrote:
>> How slow and how reliable is software raid 6 on CentOS 5. The system I'm
>> going to use is A socket 939 dual core Athlon, 4 gigs of ram and a 3ware
>> 7506-8 controller. Its mostly going to be used for storage (Movies, MP3s
>> etc.). Thanks.
>>
Argh...just read the SOFTWARE RAID 6. Man, does the 3ware turn me into
hardware mode...
I do not know...I personally have stayed away from linux software raid
for raid5/6. You might actually find raid10 hardware mode to be faster
than software raid 5/6 but at the cost of less storage and but better
reliability in power loss cases.
>
> The 7506 does not have any cache. Its ASIC chips have very limited
> storage. You are far better off running in raid10 with the 75xx and 85xx
> series. Those cards are especially slow when you get a degraded array
> in raid5 or raid6 (not sure if the 75xx or the 85xx support raid6) mode
> due to the lack of cache.
>
> So you get the benefit of multiple spindles but I personally will not
> use anything but raid1 or raid10 with a 75xx or 85xx series 3ware board.
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Thanks, that's what I'm running now, I guess I'll add more space elsewhere.
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