Re: speed and scaling

[Krisztián Tamás]

  Hi!

> or just brilliant driver design by Leonard Zubkof, but the Mylex 
> cards are the performance king for hardware RAID under Linux (and
I was suprised to hear that. We just bought a Mylex AcceleRAID
250 with five 18G IBM disks, and it's a lot slower than sw RAID.

HW RAID 5  read:  26MB/s  write:   9MB/s  
SW RAID 5  read:  43MB/s  write:  39MB/s
SW RAID 0  read:  62MB/s  write:  65MB/s

Tamas