Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261205AbUFQRa4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:30:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261206AbUFQRa4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:30:56 -0400 Received: from email.careercast.com ([216.39.101.233]:1670 "HELO email.careercast.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261205AbUFQRay (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:30:54 -0400 Subject: Re: Building a large Raid6 SATA array From: Clint Byrum To: Raphael Jacquot Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <40D1B8A2.7030707@imag.fr> References: <40D1B8A2.7030707@imag.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1087493452.18910.37.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:30:52 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 727 Lines: 21 On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 08:28, Raphael Jacquot wrote: > Hi, > I am researching the building of the above for work, and need hardware > selection advice. > We've had a 3ware Escalade 8506-8 in production for about 3 months now, with 4x250GB WDC SATA drives in software RAID5 mode. Before it went live though, I ran some checks on RAID6, as well as some filesystem stuff. Benchmarks are what they are.. but I think the results are still relevant: http://spamaps.org/raidtests.php - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/