--- Paul Aviles <paul.aviles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are SATA drives similar in performance than IDE > drives? I have tested > Barracudas 7200.0 (500Gb) and WD too on the same > type of servers (more than > 1 unit) and what I am getting is painfully slow in > terms of read/writes. > Anyone out there with similar experience or this is > just my isolated > results? > > Thanks > > Paul Aviles > Don't know about IDE, but I did some SATA tests on RAID-5, if it can give you an indication: http://www.andargor.com/raid5.html BTW, EVMS will cut your performance about 50% (the tests were run with straight MD, no EVMS). I don't know about LVM, but that might add some overhead as well... Andargor __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ - 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
