Performance and cheap storage

Mark Hellman markhellman at techie.com
Sun Jul 23 18:37:41 EDT 2006


Robert Banz wrote:

> The second thing to consider is that the performance on modern SATA
> drives, if you're using a driver for the SATA interface that supports
> advanced features such as command queueing, are going to show you
> performance akin to SCSI drives -- even more so if you place them
> behind a 'quality' RAID subsystem that provides read/write caching.

Thank you for explanations, Robert.
Do you think a RAID array like this one:
    http://www.infortrend.com/main/2_product/a08u-c2412.asp
would be adequate for storing Cyrus mailboxes?


Mark



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