In situations like this, I always like to blame the hardware RAID card for any and everything that goes wrong (including slow performance), especially the cheap P.O.S. cards everyone is using nowadays like Adaptecs and Highpoint "Rocket" RAID cards (zoom! there went all your data!).
Honestly, I don't get why it's so difficult for people to understand that it's a huge performance bottle-neck having all the data go through one single controller like that and it's a single point of failure that will inevitably destroy all of your data when the RAID card reaches it's warranty expiration date and fails on time as scheduled by the manufacturer (and boy do they fail). Why would you trust all of your data to some mysterious, unknown, black box closed source embedded technology with buggy microcode that was probably written by a 12 year old child working in a sweatshop in Burma when you can use a truly brilliant file system like ZFS? Even an ext3 file system on Linux with mdadm software raid and smartctl going on it can be pretty good in my estimation. Everybody seems to love RAID 5 until they suffer two or more simultaneous drive failures in the RAID array (due to heat overload) and can't recover their data. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
