Austin wrote:
I installed Solaris on a computer with a RAID-Z array. Athlon XP 2500+, 512MB of RAM (which I'm going to double), 4 fast (by IDE standards) hard drives for the array. The speed was not anywhere near as fast in comparison to the Intel Marix Raid-5 on a friends WinXP system. Would upgrading to a 64-bit system of comparible speed really make that much of a difference? People have said so, but I haven't seen very many benchmarks to really convince me that this is that true.
You didn't say how fast it goes... are those 4 separate IDE channels, or are you using both master and slave on two? If so, you're not going to be happy with the performance.... My 2.6 GHz dual core amd64 processor with 4 SATA drives in raid-Z config will sustain 120 MB/sec reading running build 55. Run 4 dd commands from the raw disk devices to /dev/null at the same time. This will let you know how fast the hardware will go. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
