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Anyone using 16MB buffer drives in RAID?

post #1 of 4
3/27/07 at 1:49am
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Just poking my curiosity and I am going to install two 16mb buffered drives into an AW 5750. I am going to run them in RAID 0.
My question is, has anyone done this? What kind of differences did you notice too?
Any comments would be great!
Thanks!
BenB
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post #2 of 4
3/28/07 at 10:28pm
I have 2 500 Gb WD Caviar drives (16 Mb buffer) on a PCI SATA RAID card in a server I have. Honestly, don't know about performance, but having one huge drive was exactly what I was looking for. PCI limits the bandwidth the drives are able to transmit, so my performance won't be what you'll see (I mean, you're on full SATA bandwidth- 1.5 or 3 Gb/s).
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post #3 of 4
3/28/07 at 11:47pm
I've got 3 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 400 GB drives in RAID 5.

No issues and bandwidth seems to be OK.

Then again, I have a discrete RAID controller with hardware RAID 5.
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post #4 of 4
3/29/07 at 12:05am
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Thanks guys! I should be able to report back next week (newegg 3day shipping!)
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