So Bob, What's slow. I'm using an AMD 1800+ and 256 MB DDR for my RAID server build. This system has one purpose to reliably store data while serving a small home network (in the end three computers.)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Miller Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Eug-lug] software RAID and EVMS This is truly the RAID season. Dunno what virus we caught, but it looks like everybody is asking/learning about RAID. Both on EUGLUG and other lists I'm on. In February, I built my RAID test box. Didn't get a chance to start experimenting with it until last night. I have at least two goals: I want to understand how to build and configure these things and learn what works and what to avoid. Also, I want to get some idea of the performance and reliability of software RAID in various configurations. My RAID test box is a scrap bin special. That means it's basically useless for any kind of performance testing -- the CPU is slow, and it doesn't have much RAM, and it has two disks per IDE channel. But it has six disks, so I can make some really wide RAIDs. I started out doing everything through EVMS. I haven't decided whether that was a good idea or not. (Opinions?) EVMS is not very transparent, and it seems like not everything works. -- Bob Miller K<bob> [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
