On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 04:13:28PM -0800, R Parker wrote: > I'm not sure how I'd manage the volume of production > that we do within any 24 hour period without hardware > scsi raid. And I don't care because anything else > would be penny wise but dollar foolish. I also don't > know anything about latency with raid. Perhaps it > applies only to kernel controled software raid. Ardour > includes a local/native raid 0 implementation that > shouldn't experience any computational latency. The latency in question is (I think) disk seek latency, which is unrelated the the kernel scheduling latency that we all sweat over reducing :) The potential problem is that something like ardour might be filling a fraction of the throughput, but the disks would be unable to respond in time. > gotta duck and cringe. :) Guys, with my requirements, > could it be done better and for less money? It's not Hell no, I'd use exactly the same setup. My experience is that it costs far more to back up a large disk system than it does to populate it with disks anyway. OT: I have one, wonderful, glorious machine at work with no backups :) The software on it all comes out of CVS or is stock RedHat and the data on it is refreshed every night :) - Steve
