Our production environment is using a 4 port 3ware 8500 series card with 2 drives (mirrored) on the pstn (2 t1 cards) machine and an 8 port 3ware 8500 series with 8 drives (raid5) on the pbx/vm machine.
Flawless so far. On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 16:25, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Scott Laird wrote: > > > That hasn't been my experience at all. Frankly, I've never seen a cheap > > (<$3k) hardware RAID controller that can touch software RAID's > > performance on Linux, especially in "challenging" setups, like RAID-5. > > Sure, software RAID eats more CPU, but most PCs have CPU to spare these > > days. Would you rather eat 10% of one of your Xeon CPUs to get 200 > > MB/sec or 100% of an Intel 960 to get 15 MB/sec? > > While this is certainly true, in the context of Asterisk you also have > to consider the extra PCI bus usage for all this data going back and > forth to the drives while the RAID parity/mirror stuff is being done. > > > In the context of Asterisk, where disk I/O is either logging or > > voicemail, buying a 3ware card and a pair of IDE drives seems like a > > decent business decision. > > Yep, it works very well. > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
