RE: partition size limit

1999-09-03 Thread Stanley, Jeremy
yself into the future." --Kraftwerk, 1981 -- From: Theo Van Dinter[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 6:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: partition size limit [clip] and if you're really

Re: partition size limit

1999-09-03 Thread Theo Van Dinter
| I think you meant 'if you're NOT really concerned about performance.' | The benchmarks I've seen for array controllers come nowhere near the | performance of a software-based array on a simple SMP server. For one | thing, the processor on, say, a DPT or ICP RAID controller is nowhere | near as

RE: partition size limit

1999-09-03 Thread Stanley, Jeremy
yself into the future." --Kraftwerk, 1981 -- From: Kenneth Cornetet[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 11:20 AM To: 'Stanley, Jeremy'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: partition size limit [clip] I have tried the DPT SmartRaid IV card

Re: partition size limit

1999-09-03 Thread Chris Mauritz
To: 'Stanley, Jeremy'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:RE: partition size limit [clip] I have tried the DPT SmartRaid IV card (680X0 CPU, if memory serves) and it is a DOG performance wise. Using 4 18GB Barracudas (10k RPM) in RAID5 under Linux or NT I get about 3 MB/sec writes and 8

partition size limit

1999-09-02 Thread Chris Mauritz
I'm in the process of setting up a system for my company and need a bit of advice. We'd like to have a huge flat filesystem connected to a dual processor RH 6.0 system. I've got a dual PIII-500 system with 256mb RAM and dual Adaptec LVD scsi controllers. I was planning to plop the OS on a

Re: partition size limit

1999-09-02 Thread Gerardo Muñoz Martin
I'm also interested in this topic. I'm going to setup RAID-1 over 36GB disks in a single partition. Is there any problem with the size of disks? TIA, Gerry. Chris Mauritz wrote: I'm in the process of setting up a system for my company and need a bit of advice. We'd like to have a huge flat