James Manning wrote:
>
> [ Thursday, January 13, 2000 ] Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > Since this list appears to be a good place for general RAID on Linux (or
> > Linux on RAID?) questions, I thought I'd ask. What do people think of
> > the StrongARM vs. the i960? Our i960 based cards scream, but we don't
> > have any StrongARM yet (although I could probably get some if the
> > performance is better).
>
> (warning, blantant personal opinion ranting :)
That's the best kind!
>
> Although I haven't digged into results, the only i960 that seems worth
> running for a RAID5 is the one (-RN I think?) with the embedded XOR
> engine. Otherwise your XOR operations will do much better on the StrongARM
> running at typically 2x the speed.
Sorry, should have said RAID5, RAID 1 is almost entirely dependant on
the quality of the drivers for the SCSI interface, and the stripe
computations for RAID0 are pretty simple, all things considered.
>
> That said, Mylex cards work great but I haven't had the time to really
> get a good chance to test any i960-based boards extensively.
What do you mean by "test"? I've got a DPT card which seems to perform
very well, but it just "feels fast".
Greg
