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Forum: Storage & Hardrives April 27th 09, 02:45 PM Posted to comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.arch.storage
Replies: 32
Views: 2,174
Posted By Guy Dawson
Unimpressive performance of large MD raid

kkkk wrote:
This guy

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2008-September/005170.html

is doing basically the same as I am doing with software raid done with
ZFS in freebsd...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives April 27th 09, 02:40 PM Posted to comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.arch.storage
Replies: 32
Views: 2,174
Posted By Guy Dawson
Unimpressive performance of large MD raid

kkkk wrote:

I am writing a sequential 14GB file with dd
time dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofile count=28160000 conv=notrunc ; time sync

What's your block size for dd? I'm guessing it's the default...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives June 10th 08, 05:55 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 2
Views: 501
Posted By Guy Dawson
Dell/EMC AX100 UPS

We've just bought an AX100 on ebay and have it running in our test
environment. Cheap and cheerful...

While we can run it on a UPS we don't have any signalling set-up so
the AX100 does not know it's...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives April 18th 08, 04:08 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 10
Views: 579
Posted By Guy Dawson
Where Is My 1TB Big Disk LaCie Drive?

maria wrote:

maria
you should consider doing backups. They're kind of handy.

Backup, that WAS the backup!

So you have the master copies on another drive...

Time to get a new backup...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives March 16th 07, 04:10 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 1
Views: 240
Posted By Guy Dawson
ML370 RAID drive replacement help!!

WipeOut wrote:
Hi,

We have a ML370 that has a 5 disk RAID 5 array.. One of the disks has
the red light flashing and the event log says the status is "predictive
failure".. I have just...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives March 1st 07, 04:51 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 6
Views: 760
Posted By Guy Dawson
SAN devices & OS compatibility

Steve Adams wrote:
Hello.

I'm wondering if someone could explain to me why a particular SAN
storage solution, like say a Sun Storedge 6920, wouldn't work with a
Novell file server,...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives February 16th 07, 03:49 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 2
Views: 280
Posted By Guy Dawson
IBM DS4000 security issue when manager is compromised?

IP21Haas wrote:
Is there a possibility when a Hacker takes control of the SAN manager,
that he reassigns LUN's of running systems, or that he disconnects
LUN's?

Why would they not be able to...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives January 22nd 07, 11:41 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 9
Views: 700
Posted By Guy Dawson
carrier-less sata docks

wrote:
thanks, guy.

pity---such a carrier should be very cheap to make, so what if it is
obsolete in 3 years?

It's not just the carrier but the back plane to which the...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives January 16th 07, 03:50 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 7
Views: 442
Posted By Guy Dawson
How to partition a storage most efficiently?

January Weiner wrote:
Ernst S Blofeld wrote:
You should decide if you need to share the same devices at all.

Yes, that is what we definitely would like to...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 4th 07, 02:24 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 13
Views: 420
Posted By Guy Dawson
A few questions before assembling Linux 7.5TB RAID 5 array

Jon Metzger wrote:

35 minutes sounds way too short to me. We have Clariions with 5-disk
RAID groups of 146GB drives and they take longer than that. Clariion
arrays do RAID rebuilds based...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 4th 07, 02:24 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 13
Views: 511
Posted By Guy Dawson
A few questions before assembling Linux 7.5TB RAID 5 array

Jon Metzger wrote:

35 minutes sounds way too short to me. We have Clariions with 5-disk
RAID groups of 146GB drives and they take longer than that. Clariion
arrays do RAID rebuilds based...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives January 4th 07, 02:24 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 13
Views: 563
Posted By Guy Dawson
A few questions before assembling Linux 7.5TB RAID 5 array

Jon Metzger wrote:

35 minutes sounds way too short to me. We have Clariions with 5-disk
RAID groups of 146GB drives and they take longer than that. Clariion
arrays do RAID rebuilds based...
Forum: Storage (alternative) January 3rd 07, 03:36 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 13
Views: 420
Posted By Guy Dawson
A few questions before assembling Linux 7.5TB RAID 5 array

Guy Dawson wrote:
Yeechang Lee wrote:
I'm shortly going to be setting up a Linux software RAID 5 array using
16 500GB SATA drives with one HighPoint RocketRAID 2240 PCI-X
controller (i.e.,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 3rd 07, 03:36 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 13
Views: 511
Posted By Guy Dawson
A few questions before assembling Linux 7.5TB RAID 5 array

Guy Dawson wrote:
Yeechang Lee wrote:
I'm shortly going to be setting up a Linux software RAID 5 array using
16 500GB SATA drives with one HighPoint RocketRAID 2240 PCI-X
controller (i.e.,...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives January 3rd 07, 03:36 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 13
Views: 563
Posted By Guy Dawson
A few questions before assembling Linux 7.5TB RAID 5 array

Guy Dawson wrote:
Yeechang Lee wrote:
I'm shortly going to be setting up a Linux software RAID 5 array using
16 500GB SATA drives with one HighPoint RocketRAID 2240 PCI-X
controller (i.e.,...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's December 22nd 06, 02:15 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 13
Views: 511
Posted By Guy Dawson
A few questions before assembling Linux 7.5TB RAID 5 array

Yeechang Lee wrote:
I'm shortly going to be setting up a Linux software RAID 5 array using
16 500GB SATA drives with one HighPoint RocketRAID 2240 PCI-X
controller (i.e., the controller will be...
Forum: Storage (alternative) December 22nd 06, 02:15 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 13
Views: 420
Posted By Guy Dawson
A few questions before assembling Linux 7.5TB RAID 5 array

Yeechang Lee wrote:
I'm shortly going to be setting up a Linux software RAID 5 array using
16 500GB SATA drives with one HighPoint RocketRAID 2240 PCI-X
controller (i.e., the controller will be...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives December 22nd 06, 02:15 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.arch.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.linux.hardware
Replies: 13
Views: 563
Posted By Guy Dawson
A few questions before assembling Linux 7.5TB RAID 5 array

Yeechang Lee wrote:
I'm shortly going to be setting up a Linux software RAID 5 array using
16 500GB SATA drives with one HighPoint RocketRAID 2240 PCI-X
controller (i.e., the controller will be...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives December 8th 06, 02:16 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 2
Views: 394
Posted By Guy Dawson
HP EVA6000 vs DS4700

jls wrote:

I can't speak for the DS4700, but I do know a bit about the EVA.
The main benefit for EVA-series storage arrays is simplicity of
management.

Conversely, I can't speak for the EVAs...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives December 6th 06, 12:24 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 6
Views: 562
Posted By Guy Dawson
Determining if there is an IO bottleneck

As per another poster, Navisphere Analyzer is worth looking into.

How do the RHEL devices sd? map onto the LUNs?

Looking at the %util iostat figures sdc, sdg and sdh are pretty busy
most of the...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives November 23rd 06, 11:43 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 4
Views: 344
Posted By Guy Dawson
SAN MSA-1500 performance problems

Griff wrote:
Thanks for the replies to date.

The "application" symptoms are that SqlServer errors:

1 - Number = -2147467259, Description = [DBNETLIB][ConnectionWrite
(send()).]General...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives November 17th 06, 11:38 AM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 4
Views: 344
Posted By Guy Dawson
SAN MSA-1500 performance problems

Griff wrote:
Hi

We have a MSA 1500 SAN that is showing performance problems, presumably
due to the queue length?

Firstly, I know little about MSA1500s but have tuned a few systems in
my...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives October 25th 06, 03:59 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 3
Views: 163
Posted By Guy Dawson
How long do you expect your SAN hardware to last?

Yesterday I asked a bidder (HDS with an AMS200) just this question.

They said:

models usually have a 3 year sales life during which they're considered
current
followed by a 5 year upgrade...
Forum: Storage & Hardrives October 23rd 06, 01:30 PM Posted to comp.arch.storage
Replies: 3
Views: 163
Posted By Guy Dawson
How long do you expect your SAN hardware to last?

We're looking to buy a SAN having previously used HP Proliant servers
with internal storage. We're doing this primarly for the higher levels
of resilience offered by SANs.

Our last two servers were...
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