Subject: Re: ccd vs. raidframe performance [was Re: ccd/SCSI error]
To: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/28/1999 20:21:57
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:16:42PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 05:00:29PM -0400, Erik Rungi wrote:
> 
> > Oog.  If this happens again I'm replacing the drive.  Its brand new, but I
> > can't afford to have data corruption.
> 
> If you can't afford data corruption, why are you running RAID0?  With
> three drives you could run RAID5 and still be running after a single
> drive failure.

And have performance that was so bad, you might as well have used floppies.

I've been extremely disappointed in the performance of RAIDframe, no matter
how I configure it.  Even a stripe/mirror setup yields about 1/4 the 
performance of one of the underlying drives.