RJ == Richard Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RJ Hi, i'm on the verge of buying a MegaRAID SCSI 320-2 raid controller.
RJ I need it to build a db server using 4x ultra320 scsi disks
RJ i'm thinking raid 1+0 but will try with raid5 too and compare
No specific tips on that particular RAID, but in
I've used the megaraid / LSI cards in the past and they were pretty good
in terms of reliability, but the last one I used was the 328 model, from 4
years ago or so. that one had a battery backup option for the cache, and
could go to 128 Meg. We tested it with 4/16 and 128 meg ram, and it was
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 06:48, scott.marlowe wrote:
I've used the megaraid / LSI cards in the past and they were pretty good
in terms of reliability, but the last one I used was the 328 model, from 4
years ago or so. that one had a battery backup option for the cache, and
could go to 128
On 29 Sep 2003, Will LaShell wrote:
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 06:48, scott.marlowe wrote:
I've used the megaraid / LSI cards in the past and they were pretty good
in terms of reliability, but the last one I used was the 328 model, from 4
years ago or so. that one had a battery backup option
As others have mentioned, you really ought to get battery-backed cache if
you're doing any volume of writes. The ability to do safe write-back
caching makes an *insane* difference to write performance.
The site you link to also has that for only 15% more money:
On 2003-09-27T18:24:33+0100, Richard Jones wrote:
i'm on the verge of buying a MegaRAID SCSI 320-2 raid controller.
You may want to check out the PCI-X version of this controller that
LSILogic just released (MegaRAID SCSI 320-2X). PCI-X is backwards
compatible with PCI, but also gives you
