Oops! That was supposed to be off-list.
Never mind....
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Doc wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote:
>
> > > <My Not-So-Humble Opinion>
> > > A multi-channel adapter or multiple adapters, running JBOD, with
> > > intelligent filesystem groupings, will probably boost your speed as much
> > > as RAID will. (Assuming a single-user general-use Unix desktop.) RAID
> > > can be tuned to big sequential reads or writes, or a lot of small r/w,
> > > but it's damn difficult to get middle-ground or all-around performance.
> > > </My Not-So-Humble Opinion>
> > >
> > > All that said, it's good practice and fun.
> > >
> > > Doc
> > >
> > Doc - As someone who never played with RAID before, can you provide an
> > example setup, or two?
>
> David,
> I'm cleaning out my Inbox, and I couldn't remember if I saved this
> because I answered, or because I was going to....
> Anyway, since I probably didn't, here are a couple links to clearer
> info than I can give:
>
> Quick&Dirty overview:
> http://www.uni-mainz.de/~neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.html
>
> More detailed:
> http://www.amsstorage.com/html/raid_overview.html
>
> RAID management is more of an art than a skill-set. The number and
> range of variables is staggering. And I'm a rank amateur....
>
> Doc
>
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