On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 20:53, Adam Hunt wrote: > I'm looking at building what I guess you could call a budget NAS > array. I'm looking to start with four 250MB SATA drives on 3ware > 8506-4LP controller. I eventually want to move to eight drives in the > box. Is there any reason to expect that the performance of eight > drives spread across two 8506-4LP controllers is going to be any worse > then the same eight drives all on one 8506-8? are they on the same PCI bus or not? I've had issues where removing a drive (without notifying the 3ware card) causes all access to that controller to lock up about 20 seconds later. It only locks up though for about 10-15 seconds and then continues normally, so depending on your demands, that may be just fine for you. Scott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
