Re: High lngspins - IDS 9.30 UC2

"Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:38:27 -0400, Richard Kofler wrote: > > Just a brief note: I'd like to see a 6 disk (3pair) RAID10 versus the 4 drive > RAID5 for apples to apples read performance numbers. As Richard notes, one > cannot expect 2 RAID10 pairs to out perform the (effectively) 3-data-drive > RAID5 array. > > Art S. Kagel > me too would love to test this, but: this is an ordinary PC (although consisting of hand selected parts in the context of a project) and there is only space for 9 disks :( 4 disks build the RAID10 4+1 spare the 4 disk RAID5 Maybe with serial ATA I can add some sort of cabinet. The 3 ware ESCALADE controllers actually can support 8 disks each, both types serail or parallel ATA 133. The latter ones I have now sitting in there. dic_k -- Richard Kofler SOLID STATE EDV Dienstleistungen GmbH Vienna/Austria/Europe