Re: raid 5: switching cache buffer size, 4096 -- 1024. More info.

2001-07-09 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Bruno Prior wrote: Ross, difference. The disks are each in removeable containers, which accept only 40-pin connectors. The disks are therefore running at UDMA-33 at Get them out now. I've done a lot of experimenting with RAID5 over IDE and these things have

Re: raid 01 vs 10

2001-07-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday July 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what people thought of using raid 0+1 (a mirrored array of raid0 stripes) vs. raid 1+0 (a raid0 array of mirrored disks). It seems that either can sustain at least one drive failure and the performance should be similar. Are there

Re: raid 01 vs 10

2001-07-09 Thread Alvin Oga
hi andy assuming you have 4 disks... and not 2 disks... hda + hdd == md0 hda mirrored to hdd hdc + hdb == md1 hdc mirrored to hdb i claim you should mirror first... than strip it to be able to read the data faster you should play with the idea that if hda dies... you need to

Promise 100 TX2 w/ 2.4.6

2001-07-09 Thread Jonathan Monk
Hi, I am currently setting up a RAID array using the following: 2x Promise 100 TX2 and 8x maxtor 60Gb disks. I first tried this with four disks on using both promise cards but only using 1 of the channels on each. (I am aware of the issues with Master Slave but that isnt the problem here).