[nycbug-talk] File Backed Disks- Speed Issues

[Isaac Levy]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:

> For what it's worth, I've been punishing a 3Ware 9550-SX-12 for the  
> past
> few weeks, and it has pretty much made me a convert.  Any new boxes we
> build with hardware raid are getting these cards.  They are beating  
> the
> snot out of our Adaptec ZCR cards, both in performance and management.
>
> Things that would require reboots and visits to the BIOS config  
> when using
> Adaptec were handled quite smoothly.  Punishment included yanking a  
> bunch
> of drives during a long bonnie run, rearranging the drives, yanking  
> power
> during drive rebuilds, etc.  And being able to change stripe sizes  
> without
> wiping the array is a real plus.
>
> Sorry for the marketing,
>
> C

Just to check, on FreeBSD Charles?

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