[ILUG] Dell PERCs and Linux

[David Murphy]

Quoting <394D8654.FCE16667 at esatclear.ie>
by Paul Kelly <longword at esatclear.ie>:

> David Murphy wrote:
> > > but at least we have the numbers now.. perhaps now David /might/
> > > admit that RAID5 {isn't slow, is faster than RAID1}. but thread is
> > > thankfully dead.. :)
> > IIRC Paul compared 3-disk RAID5 to a single partition...
> 
> We have you on write speed. Will you at least concede that?

I'll concede I was wrong on everything that 2-disk RAID1 v 3-disk
RAID5 on identical hardware prove me to be wrong about.

> > "3-disk RAID5 does not have sufficiently superior performance v 2-disk
> > RAID1 to justify the extra hardware".

> Extra hardware? It has a 33% smaller disk space requirement.

Prices from Scan:

2 x 18.2Gb LVD IBM 18LZX 2Mb Cache 10K rpm 355.00  = 710

3 x 9.1Gb  LVD IBM 18LZX 2MB Cache 10K rpm 269.00  = 807

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