Re: Building a large Raid6 SATA array

[Clint Byrum]

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


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