Your RAID is 2MB/s? I don't know how you make it so slow! Today's IDE disks are much faster than that! I bet something is configured wrong! My P3-500 system gives me 30-40MB/s on a 14 disk RAID5. It's SCSI, but my disks are slow compared to today's IDE disks. Guy -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Brad Campbell Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:02 AM To: seth vidal Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Which raid card to buy for Sarge seth vidal wrote: >>One point. Hardware raid (and faux hardware raid) provides real hot swap with on-the-fly rebuilds. >>Linux software raid can't (yet). > > > umm. That's surprising. My software raid arrays running on dell > powervault 221s scsi boxes with adaptec 39160 controllers are > hotswappable and when I put in a new disk and add it to the array it > resyncs on the fly. > > Are you just talking about ide-based raid? Yes. ATA and SATA raid (Which is the majority of low budget linux software raid stuff) I realise scsi is hotswap. It comes with the turf. I would find it pretty hard to justify the expense of scsi for my 7 drive 1.4TB low speed array (Low speed because I never *need* more than about 2MB/s in any direction but I need heaps of space) Brad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
