On Mar 20, 2006, at 6:27 PM, PFC wrote:
Expensive SCSI hardware RAID cards with expensive 10Krpm harddisks should not get humiliated by such a simple (and cheap) setup. (I'm referring to the 12-drive RAID10 mentioned before, not the other one which was a simple 2-disk mirror). Toms hardware benchmarked some hardware RAIDs and got humongous transfer rates... hm ?
I'll put up my "slow" 12 disk SCSI array up against your IDE array on a large parallel load any day.