 | | | IBM x236 - Adaptec HostRAID | IBM x236 - Adaptec HostRAID 2005-04-26 - By C Lance Moxley
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On 4/26/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@(protected)> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:00 -0500, C Lance Moxley wrote:
> > On 4/26/05, Celal UNALP <cunalp@(protected)> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there anyone running with IBM x236 server with onboard ADAPTEC HostRAID
> > > configured RAID1?
> > >
> > > I downloaded HostRAID driver images (39m4736.zip) for RHELAS3U3 but
> > > complaining about with RHELAS3U4.
> >
> > I have a few x206's and have come to the conclusion that it is a lot
> > easier to do software RAID with Linux than to do "hardware" raid with
> > IBM's drivers. From a performance standpoint it's basically a wash
> > too.
>
> that surprises me; purely from a theoretical performance point of view
> the linux layout is more optimal than the adaptec layout, and both are
> equally software raid...
Attached is an html file of some tests I ran last year right after I
got one of these IBM servers. I'm not an I/O guy so to me it looks
like each way has it's strengths and weaknesses.
What do others think? Mudpuddle is the IBM driver and mudpuddle2 is Linux RAID.
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C Lance Moxley
http://moxley.champaign.il.us:61821/
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