RAID5 speed question.

2011-10-31 Thread Keith
Have an ancient 4.1R mail server to replace. It has about 3000 accounts. Usual /var/mail to store mail. /var/mail is RAID5 on an old Dell PERC3 card. Its worked pretty well and have lived through 3 drive failures over the years. New Dell box with a PERC5/i. Same drive setup, a 500GB RAID5 for

Vinum RAID5 speed question

2003-09-26 Thread Martin Brecher
Hi, - I plan on setting up a vinum RAID5 array of three 120GB IDE disks. The disks will be attached to two Promise 100 TX2 controllers, on which two other disks are residing, too. The following questions have come to my mind: 1. I thought about getting disks with 8MB cache. Does the bigger

Re: Vinum RAID5 speed question

2003-09-26 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 13:22:09 +0200, Martin Brecher wrote: Hi, - I plan on setting up a vinum RAID5 array of three 120GB IDE disks. The disks will be attached to two Promise 100 TX2 controllers, on which two other disks are residing, too. The following questions have come to my