Re: Best OS & Configuration for Dual Xeon w/4GB & Adaptec

On Mar 20, 2006, at 6:27 PM, PFC wrote:

>     Expensive SCSI hardware RAID cards with expensive 10Krpm harddisks
> should not get humiliated by such a simple (and cheap) setup. (I'm
> referring to the 12-drive RAID10 mentioned before, not the other
> one which was a simple 2-disk mirror). Toms hardware benchmarked
> some hardware RAIDs and got humongous transfer rates... hm ?
>

I'll put up my "slow" 12 disk SCSI array up against your IDE array on
a large parallel load any day.