Hardware RAID Level & Performance

[Paul Dekkers]

Hi,

David Carter wrote:

>We have one of the following boxes on our tape streaming system:
>
>  http://www.infortrend.com/a16f_g.asp
>  
>
We use this one for mail (and two others for backup) with an Adaptec 
SCSI-controller. Works fine, the only SPOF in our setup is the RAID 
controller in the unit; we have only one on it, because we want two 
machines to connect to the same disks so that in case of hardware 
problems on one machine the other one can take over.
(You couldn't do that with two (redundant) controllers I was told.)

The performance is slightly better then the SCSI Dell Perc 3 (AMI?), the 
only one I compared with.

Paul

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