>> If I get the offshelf LSI Megaraid withe the same configuration? You
>> don't want to know... it will just make you want to cry at the fact
> that
>> you bought a Dell.
>
> I agree there's better platforms out there than Dell, but the above is
> simply not true for the 2950. Raid 5, dd, on 6 disks, I get about
> 260Mb/s sustained writes. Granted, this should be faster, but... it's a
> far cry from 8 or 50MB/s. I posted some numbers here a while back on the
> 2950, so you might want to dig those out of the archives.
Well these are 3 year old machines, they could have improved a bit but
it is quite true for the version of the Dells I have. I can duplicate it
on both machines.
Frankly Dell has a *long* way to go to prove to me that they are a
quality vendor for Server hardware.
Joshua D. Drake
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