On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Michael Clark wrote:
> The AMI I think has a few more benefits IMHO than the Mylex:
How about performance? I've read that the Mylex is more of a hardware
solution since it uses ASICs to do lots of the computation work, whereas
the AMI is essentially running software on its i960. Don't know if this
is true or not.
Of course, the AMI is about 1/2 the price...
> No worries, just add another logical disk using the 3 new drives -
> will appear as another SCSI device. It should be possible to do this
> without a reboot with the AMI (although haven't tried this yet) if you
> have a hot-swapable drive cabinet.
OK, a stupid follow-up question: if I start with 3 drives in a RAID5, I
will have 2 data drives and 1 parity drive, correct? Now, if I add 3 more
drives as a second logical volume, will I have to devote 1 of them to
parity again, or can the initial parity drive be used for both? I would
like reserve as many of the drives for data as possible, even if it means
spending more money in the near term to get all 6 drives.
Thanks for all the help. Basic real-world questions like this don't tend
to make it into faqs, but can go a long way to helping you make informed
buying decisions.
-D
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