On 24 Apr 2000, at 17:42, Garl R. Grigsby wrote:
> I have just setup a soft-raid box. I downloaded the Software
> Raid-howto, carefully followed the directions, and everything went
> very smoothly. This is not a real high performance box, P200
> overdrive, 128 Ram, 4 1GB SCSI HDD, Raid 5, BUT it does work very
> well. I am currently using the raid mount on a samba server.
> Currently the only thing that is on there are some audio files (mp3s)
> while I test this out, but so far, the performance is excellent. What
> were your questions?
He wanted to know about hardware vs. software RAID, performance
of RAID 5 vs. RAID 0, cost, TCO (as in time to administer), and the
difficulty of setting it up.
The box is probably going to be a single-processor PIII-600 with 1/2-
1 GB RAM that has an average of 75 users attached during
business hours, and there are databases involved, but any number
crunching is done on the workstations.
Cheers,
Dennis
"Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language."
--Noel Godin
