Personal machines, work machines, build servers, whatever you've got, list 'em.

Monday I'm going to setup a RAID-10 array with four 147GB 15k RPM Fujitsu U320 SCSI drives

6/23/2006 1:37:49 PM

I'm too poor to RAID anything. I have a PCI SATA RAID controller card, but only one drive. Christ, I hate being poor.

6/23/2006 1:38:58 PM

I'm too poor to buy a new personal computer, so I live vicariously through the stuff I use at work

6/23/2006 1:41:39 PM

JBOD 2x250s SATAIIs

nothin extravagant

6/23/2006 1:49:02 PM

Most of the servers we do get a simple mirror RAID with SATA Drives, occasionally SCSI


Never configured anything more complex than that.

6/23/2006 1:55:22 PM

I'm too poor to RAID anything

6/23/2006 1:57:35 PM

I'm going to run HD Tach 3.0, PCMark05, and Iometer and post the results to see how hard I can push these four drives on monday. They did a similar test of a few workstation RAID cards at Extremetech a few weeks ago (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1976992,00.asp)

I'll be using the onboard Adaptec AIC-7902 Controller though, HostRAID instead of using an actual hardware RAID card. The CPU overhead should be minimal though.

If anyone is running Raptors at RAID-0 or any other combination, I'd like to see what you get with the above performance tools just for a comparison.

6/23/2006 2:07:16 PM

I have a simple RAID-0 on my home machine. In my lab we have a 40 drive arrary in RAID-6 and 2 24 drive arrays, one in RAID-5 and one in RAID-3. Terabytes FTW!

6/23/2006 5:11:07 PM

2x250 GB Samsung SataII in RAID1... some added speed, but mostly to have everything backed up in case a drive dies (which kept happening on my old system)

6/23/2006 5:48:08 PM

Set up a few RAID 1 arrays before but I'd definitely like a RAID 5.

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html
Best guide to RAID ever.

6/23/2006 7:20:54 PM

minime, gg on the setup

What is this setup going to be used for?

Those hdd's are outragiously expensive

6/24/2006 4:46:05 PM

Quote :

"a simple mirror RAID"

6/24/2006 4:52:20 PM

4x250 GB SATA in RAID 5

6/24/2006 5:01:43 PM

jbod 37gb
jbod 300gb

6/24/2006 5:02:56 PM

(RAID 0)Hitachi 160GB SATAII
(RAID 0)Hitachi 160GB SATAII

6/24/2006 5:58:04 PM

Quote :

"4x250 GB SATA in RAID 5"

6/24/2006 6:03:21 PM

I think I would, if I had the resources, go with a raid 5 scsi set up

6/24/2006 6:15:39 PM

For one of my dad's friends I've set up raid 50 (6 7200 rpm 8mb cache 200 gig SATA II drives slavaged from a bunch of workstations that had motherboards fail in a power surge over the ethernet) a raid 0+1 array for one of their workstations and a raid 10 array for one of their database servers.

The raid 50 array was in a server that was basically salvaged from things that survived the power surge. The guy was actually going to trash all the machines without trying to salvage parts from them! I'm not sure what he was going to do with that one, but meh.

The workstation was mostly for running autocad and also salvaged from some of the damaged system. The motherboard and processor needed to be replaced, everything else was useable. Ran a memory stress test to make sure they wouldn't have stability issues their.

The database server was the only one that was completely new. They ordered it from Dell but had forgotten to select a raid option.

6/24/2006 7:15:33 PM

ZERO

6/24/2006 11:16:34 PM

Right now I'm running no RAID but when I get an extra $50 I'm going to get another 80GB seagate SATA drive and run RAID-1. I will run RAID-1 becuase I just recently lost a HD and all of my data from the last year because I don't have the time to make backups all the time. I wouldn't even do RAID but my $45 motherboard supports it.

6/25/2006 8:50:22 AM

I'm setting up this machine for my development/build workstation at work. I was down to <900MB on my last HD, so I scavanged some super nice HD's from some of our old test machines. I'm gonna install Windows XP Pro x64 (which is the Win2003 Server kernel) and see how that goes. I've got the U320 x64 HostRAID "Press F6" driver disk ready to go.

I just forgot how long it takes to create a 300GB RAID-10 array, after about 20min its only at 18% done I'm goin to lunch!

6/26/2006 11:36:34 AM

I've got about 5 18 gb scsi drives I scavanged from work that I'm gonna work with one of these days. Right now I dont have a decent machine for the scsi controller I've got

6/26/2006 10:12:51 PM

I got about an average sustained 220MB/sec read rate with a ~300GB RAID-10 array using HD-Tach 3.0

Not bad so far...

6/26/2006 10:28:40 PM

2 raptors in RAID 0

6/27/2006 9:55:27 AM

Ok, so I misread the benchmark, the average read was about 160MB/s and the burst rate was almost 220MB/s yesterday, but not bad overall.



[Edited on June 27, 2006 at 10:38 AM. Reason : detail]

6/27/2006 10:37:08 AM

SEVEN 4.3 GB SCSI drives. RAID 5. heh. fast as balls though.

6/27/2006 10:54:31 PM

Raid 0 should be heretofore be referred to as Aid 0.
Discuss.

[Edited on June 27, 2006 at 11:52 PM. Reason : l]

6/27/2006 11:51:52 PM

^^where did you get your hands on a Raid-5 controller for casual/personal use? i call B.S.

i have 2 ide 160 gigs mirrored (with the system disk on a sata 80 gig)

6/28/2006 2:21:20 AM

some of you guys download HDTach, I'd like to see how other people's RAID setups compare to what I did

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

6/28/2006 8:53:17 AM

had to reinstall with regular Win XP Pro instead of x64, stupid ClearCase wont work. I reran the benchmark, same results as before but the burst speed is higher.

6/30/2006 9:59:18 AM