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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:02:06 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Bucky Jordan <bjordan@lumeta.com>
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Subject: Re: New hardware thoughts
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>> 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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