[Gllug] [Fwd: Server]

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 07:22:14PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> At 12:48 23/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:
> >faster than hardware RAID options such as the Vortex cards, and crappy
> >Dell PowerEdge rubbish).
> 
> That's because the Vortex cards are not real RAID controllers.  PowerEdge 
> is a brand of server, do you mean the PERC2 and PERC3 controllers?  If so 
> these are, in order, AMI MegaRAID and AACRAID controllers, both superb bits 
> of kit.

The PowerEdges had PERC2 in them, IIRC.

We actually benchmarked those controllers against Linux software RAID
on the same machine (quad Pentium II Xeon - so that would be about 3
or 4 years ago), and the difference was a factor of 5 or so in Linux's
favour.

Rich.

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