Re: Compaq DL 380 And Smart Array

From: Holger Baer <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:34:33 +0200
Message-ID: <3F14F1F9.5030308@science-computing.de>

Andras Kovacs wrote:
> Moving to a 64 bit OS will not help much. Smart Array is already 64
> bit.
> We have done some testing with Compaq Thru 64 and the performance gain
> was minor for our DB application.
>
> We have an IO limit on the Raid and disks.
> Smart Array 5304 is something that we consider but the IO rate per
> channel is the same as on Smart Array 5302.
>
> Is there something better in the Compaq products than the Smart Array
> controller ?

The controller isn't too bad, what kind of storage do you use? For high throughput something like the MSA1000 might be worth considering if you don't have it allready.

Holger Received on Wed Jul 16 2003 - 01:34:33 CDT