On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Bucky Jordan wrote:
Dells (at least the 1950 and 2950) come with the Perc5, which is basically just the LSI MegaRAID. The units I have come with a 256MB BBU, I'm not sure if it's upgradeable, but it looks like a standard DIMM in there... I posted some dd and bonnie++ benchmarks of a 6-disk setup a while back on a 2950, so you might search the archive for those numbers if you're interested- you should be able to get the same or better from a similarly equipped LSI setup. I don't recall if I posted pgbench numbers, but I can if that's of interest.
I could only find the 6 disk RAID5 numbers in the archives that were run with bonnie++1.03. Have you run the RAID10 tests since? Did you settle on 6 disk RAID5 or 2xRAID1 + 4XRAID10?
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