Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the native card. Is this true? Doubtful, though I have heard that there are

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Peter C. Lai
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:17AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the native

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:17AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Willem Jan Withagen
Peter C. Lai wrote: I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the native card. Is this true? Should I not bother with

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a This seems to have difficulty wrapping quotes. On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 10:52:24 -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:17AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: I have a box

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Peter C. Lai
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 09:44:51AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: snip Recall that there are no real hardware RAID controllers on the market. The difference is whether you have a special processor on the controller card or not. To determine which is faster, you need to compare the

vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-15 Thread Peter C. Lai
I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using the native card. Is this true? Should I not bother with doing the hardware raid