> 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? With the performance issues I'm seeing with the 8506-4LP's I have, I wouldn't recommend them to anyone currently... The thread on LKML from a few days ago about mke2fs -j and 8506-4LP says it all, but basically and reasonable amount of I/O brings a Dual Opteron system to its knees. And by reasonable I mean copying ISO images from a usb2 drive to a raid 5 (4 x 250GB maxtor) or even just formatting a 600MB partition. Mark. - 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
