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Re: Tera-Byte+ fileservers

To: Mike Baptiste <mike@baptistefamily.net>
Subject: Re: Tera-Byte+ fileservers
From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <b.j.smith@ieee.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:10:59 -0400
Cc: pac@fortuitous.com, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Organization: SmithConcepts, Inc.
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Mike Baptiste wrote:
> I know some folks who put together 1TB file servers for < $5K
> They used Athlon motherboards and Promise RAID gear
> (http://www.promise.com/ATARaid/)

Promise?  Ouch.  Especially if it is the "trick BIOS" FastTrak. 
Even the SuperTrak is not _that_ good compared to the Adaptec 2400A
or the 3Ware Escaldes -- at least according to StorageReview.COM.

The only time I've seen people having problems with 3Ware cards has
been when they change the default block size, use RAID-5 (which has
slow write performance anyway) or load older run-time monitoring
software while running with newer drivers and/or firmware.

-- TheBS

-- 
Bryan "TheBS" Smith   mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org    chat:thebs413
Engineer  AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc.  http://www.linux-wlan.org
President    SmithConcepts, Inc.    http://www.SmithConcepts.com

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