Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec

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> > 	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.

	Sure, and I have no doubt that yours will be immensely faster on parallel  
loads than mine, but still, it should also be the case on sequential  
scan... especially since I have desktop PCI and the original poster has a  
real server with PCI-X I think.