vinum stability?

[Jonathan Horne]

On Wednesday 05 July 2006 19:05, Peter A. Giessel wrote:
> On 7/5/2006 15:56, Jeremy Ehrhardt seems to have typed:
> > 3: would I be better off using a different RAID 5 system on another OS?
>
> You would be best off with a 3ware card (www.3ware.com) running RAID 5
> (hardware raid >> software raid).
>
> It works great in FreeBSD and is *very* stable and fault tolerant.
>
> _______________________________________________

i have a 3ware card in my production server running a RAID5, and its never 
skipped a beat.

if you dont buy a raid card (with 6 or more channels), try breaking the usage 
up.  put the system partitions on one controller, and build a 4 disk raid5 on 
the other, and see if it behaves differently (ie, remove the 
cross-controller-raid from the equation and see what happens).

cheers,
jonathahn