[Gllug] OT: Replace old model WD Raptor with new within CentOS 4 RAID system?

[Christopher Hunter]

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 18:23 +0100, gvim wrote:

> I'm tempted to proceed with the new WD1500HLFS to make life easier but
> wondered if anyone else has had experience with RAID5 disks which 
> aren't exactly the same.
> 
> gvim

Yes.  It didn't work very well, because the seek times became somewhat
excessive.  We only ran the machine like that for two days, until the
right drive could be supplied, then all was well.  I don't have any
quantitative details on the performance impact, but it was substantial.

C.


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