On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Adam Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > After a recent fire in one of our data centres, it's time to go > shopping. As I've had many problems in the past trying to get > half-decent performance out of the drive controllers in Dell servers, > I'd like to know what others' experiences are. > > I don't need anything spectacular, but I'd like to have a dozen or so > people able to load their Word docs at the same time without it grinding > to a halt. Annoyingly I can get great performance out of Dell desktop > PCs with the same kernel version, just not out of the servers I've had > in the past. > > Mostly this seems to be caused by the disks being connected to an awful > hardware RAID controller, but I don't think Dell offer any servers using > the same onboard Intel SATA controllers that work really well on desktop > PCs. Haven't yet had a server with SAS disks, but as they all go > through a hardware RAID controller I'm a little dubious... > > So any suggestions/experience would be much appreciated!
You hadn't previously used a Dell CERC SATA controller? If so, you've seen as bad as it gets. jh _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
