this discussion belongs on -performance
cheers
andrew
Luke Lonergan said:
> Joshua,
>
> On 7/21/05 7:53 PM, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> Well I know that isn't true at least not with ANY of the Dells my
>> customers have purchased in the last 18 months. They are still really,
>> really slow.
>
> That's too bad, can you cite some model numbers? SCSI?
>
>> I have great success with Silicon Image as long as I am running them
>> with Linux software RAID. The LSI controllers are also really nice.
>
> That's good to hear, I gave up on Silicon Image controllers on Linux
> about 1 year ago, which kernel are you using with success? Silicon
> Image
> controllers are the most popular, so it's important to see them
> supported well, though I'd rather see more SATA headers than 2 off of
> the built-in chipsets.
>
> - Luke