Re: 3Ware 8000 vs. 9000 performance

From: Paolo Alexis Falcone (pfalcone_at_free.net.ph)
Date: 08/22/05 

Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:00:35 +0800

On Sat, 21 May 2005 14:27:34 +0000, Roger Blake wrote:

> In article <slrnd8rsja.9jn.jlb17@chaos.egr.duke.edu>, Joshua
> Baker-LePain wrote:
>> You mentioned it being a "small server" -- how many disks?
>
> It will be a two-disk RAID1 array. I was actually more interested for
> future reference than for this particular project, which has some tight
> budgetary constraints.

Using hardware RAID on a 2-disk RAID 1 array is already overkill unless
you're interested in hotswap, as Linux software raid is way much faster...
much more the use of a BBU-capable hardware RAID solution (which is
essentially the difference between a 3Ware 85xx-xx and 9000-xx card, aside
from variable memory).