i didn't know if there was something i didn't know. about five years ago i built a pretty large (for the day) oracle database (2TB) with a quad processor va linux box (running linux, oddly enough) and three three-channel dac960 raid cards. each channel was connected to a simple raid cabnet with 8 36G drives in a raid-5 setup. the whole thing at the time was about $125k and it ran circles around the ibm big iron it replaced. we had no problem keeping the load above 0.5per processor and the disk io limited by pci bandwidth.
the only problem we had was when the development server took several power cycles and a nearby lightning strike. although the system was on a ups, i had to manually remind each card about it's attached arrays. but we didn't loose a byte. today, i think one could get a lot more bang/buck with (s)ata drives and lvm2 striping/raid 5. then again, much of the data was documents stored by md5 score. it would have been great to have fossil back then. - erik On Tue Apr 18 23:03:07 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have no idea if it's a poor piece of hardware or not, i just > can't see me ever wanting to use one. > > On Tue Apr 18 23:12:50 EDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > am i missing something? is this a poor piece of hardware? > > > > - erik > > > > On Tue Apr 18 10:43:14 CDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >What is a dac960? > > > > > > it's a raid controller formerly made by mylex and now made by lsilogic. > > > it might even originally be made by american megatrends, i'm not sure. > > > i found one recently and threw it in the pile of cards i'll never have > > > a driver for (nor see the need to ever write a driver for).
