I am going to guess by RAID-2 you really meant RAID-1

RAID-2 is a very ancient raid that basically serves no purpose in todays
market (neither do RAID-3 or RAID-4)  They came from the days when drives
were much more expensive.  Today it's basically RAID-0, RAID-1, or RAID-5.
There are highend setups where you might use RAID3+RAID5 or 3+1 or 10/0+1,
however most controllers are built around 0,1 and 5.


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Sorenson
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [hlds] Re: I need help!! [not a raid problem]

At 10:28 AM 2/9/2006 -0800, m0gely opinied:

>I'm well aware of what RAID is and why RAID-0 isn't redundant.

        So my missive was wasted on you.  I don't mind -- I suspect there
are others who found it informative.

>But what was the point of that novel?

        Troubleshooting, how to isolate the limiting factor.  You might be
suprised at how people run raid-5 for redundancy when they're better off
running raid-2 for their small storage needs.

>I don't care about RAID here though.  It's not what his problem is.  So
>enough about the side discussion.

        How do you know?  Seems to me the original poster best knows his own
situation, he can best decide the limiting factor in his server speed issue.
I merely provided one tidbit of info.

>But it's *not* the limiting factor.  Sure it's the slowest part of the
>computer but that's a given and true with *any* computer.  So the point
>is neither here nor there.

        I'll defer to the poster on if it is the limiting factor.
With those load times there's something wrong, and it's probably not memory
speed but I/O or CPU, so it seems to me that disk is a viable thing to
query.

>He needs to disable Metamod

        Of course -- zero the config and work up from there.
If it's not his software, I see no reason to dismiss hardware as an item to
evaluate.  That said, software invariably kills the hardware rather than the
other way around, so change hardware as a last option, but build it right in
the first place so you know what your limitations are.

                - Dan

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