On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 at 6:03pm, AndyLiebman@xxxxxxx wrote > I have a Xeon machine (3.06 Ghz single processor, 2 GB RAM, SuperMicro > motherboard) with two 3ware 9500S-8 cards. I'm getting good performance with 3ware's > Hardware RAID-5 (I have reasons why I don't want to use Software RAID-5 on > this machine). > > My question is, what kind of problems, if any, might I run into if I use > Linux Software RAID to stripe the two RAID-5's together into a single RAID-0? The > reason I'm thinking about doing this is to squeeze more performance out of the > storage system for working with huge video files. I have a couple of dual 3ware boxes I do this with, and have never had a problem. I would make sure that you have a hot spare on your RAID5 arrays, though. Because if one of them dies, you'll obviously lose everything on both arrays. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University - 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
