Re: [PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 11:47, Greg Spiegelberg wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 11:14, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > > >>On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:26:14PM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote: > >> > >>>My experience has been that once you get past 6 disks, RAID5 is faster > >>>than RAID1

Re: [PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-09-02 Thread Greg Spiegelberg
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 11:14, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:26:14PM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote: My experience has been that once you get past 6 disks, RAID5 is faster than RAID1+0. Also depends on your filesystem and volume manager. As near as I can tell, y

Re: [PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-09-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:24:16AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > >tell, you do _not_ want to use RAID 5 with Veritas. > Out of curiosity, why? What I keep hearing through various back channels is that, if you pay folks from Veritas to look at your installation, and they see RAID 5, they suggest y

Re: [PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 11:14, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:26:14PM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote: > > > > My experience has been that once you get past 6 disks, RAID5 is faster > > than RAID1+0. > > Also depends on your filesystem and volume manager. As near as I can > tell,

Re: [PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-09-02 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:14:34 -0400 Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:26:14PM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote: My experience has been that once you get past 6 disks, RAID5 is faster than RAID1+0. Also depends on your filesystem and volume manager. As

Re: [PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-09-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:26:14PM -0600, scott.marlowe wrote: > > My experience has been that once you get past 6 disks, RAID5 is faster > than RAID1+0. Also depends on your filesystem and volume manager. As near as I can tell, you do _not_ want to use RAID 5 with Veritas. A -- Andrew

Re: [PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-08-29 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Vivek Khera wrote: > > "sm" == scott marlowe writes: > > sm> My experience has been that once you get past 6 disks, RAID5 is faster > sm> than RAID1+0. > > Any opinion on stripe size for the RAID? That's more determined by what kind of data you're gonna be handling.

Re: [PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-08-29 Thread Vivek Khera
> "sm" == scott marlowe writes: sm> My experience has been that once you get past 6 disks, RAID5 is faster sm> than RAID1+0. Any opinion on stripe size for the RAID? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EM

Re: [PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-08-28 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Vivek Khera wrote: > I just ran a handful of tests on a 14-disk array on a SCSI hardware > RAID card. SNIP > Has anyone else done similar tests of different RAID levels? What > were your conclusions? Yes I have. I had a 6 disk array plus 2 disks inside my machine (this wa

[PERFORM] opinion on RAID choice

2003-08-28 Thread Vivek Khera
I just ran a handful of tests on a 14-disk array on a SCSI hardware RAID card. >From some quickie benchmarks using the bonnie++ benchmark, it appears that the RAID5 across all 14 disks is a bit faster than RAID50 and noticeably faster than RAID10... Sample numbers for a 10Gb file (speed in Kbytes