Posted by Pat Horridge on 10/11/05 09:27

Will look at storage carefully.
Our DS has SCSI 24way stripes and is very fast.
Our Adrenaline HD currently has an 8 way SATA stripe which gives good
through put but can be flakey.
Need the FCP solution to be fast and robust. You get what you pay for I
find.

"SpamTrapSeeSig" <no-one@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <1128986470.313013.117400@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> joelgilbert@gmail.com writes
>
>>Don't go SATA raid. Go for a 4Gbit Fibre Huge Array.
>
> I was going to say that!
>
> Or at least, if you want performance, consider the bandwidth at every
> point & look for bottlenecks. SATA isn't all that fast really, and bogs
> down with bi-directional traffic (as they all do). So you need one
> (physical) disk per channel for decent throughput.
>
> A proper fibre array is indeed the way to go.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simonm.
>
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