tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959356083618071167.post7972400176166895087..comments2024-02-24T04:33:15.835-08:00Comments on Beautiful Pixels: Testing Build Times with RAID 0 on a Dell PrecisionVincent Scheibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142807255428586912noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959356083618071167.post-11670597037824612542008-11-12T21:59:00.000-08:002008-11-12T21:59:00.000-08:00Dell sells a number of RAID cards or ROMBs which u...Dell sells a number of RAID cards or ROMBs which use the LSI MegaRAID driver which is part of the stock 2.2.x, 2.4.x, and 2.6.x kernels. The new SAS 5 and SAS 6 non-RAID controllers use a new driver, mptsas, part of the mptfusion driver family. Both drivers are included in kernel.org 2.6.x kernels, and have been backported to the RHEL3 2.4.21-x kernels. <BR/>---------------<BR/>Lonet<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://fsbo.fastrealestate.net" REL="nofollow">homes for sale by owner</A>Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16009433032514119345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959356083618071167.post-74516753090828636012008-09-22T12:52:00.000-07:002008-09-22T12:52:00.000-07:00When you get a new system, your performance from y...When you get a new system, your performance from your hard drive is much faster as most of the data is being written as quickly as the drive can process it. Once you have been working for a while and your drive starts to fragment you will see reduced performance. I imagine that striping will simply hinder that reduction. <BR/><BR/>If you really want to know the fastest that you system will ever be able to compile then get a bunch of ram and create a ram drive. That would be your baseline. Then your non-striped drive system would be your slowest system and your striped drive system would likely be somewhere in between... but due to disk caching and data layout with a clean system, you may find all three comparable. <BR/><BR/>However, two months from now, you will likely find the striped version to be faster. After all, at that point you will likely be doing multiple tasks that cause even more cache misses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com