Re: Dell Hardware Recommendations

On 8/10/07, Arjen van der Meijden <acmmailing(at)tweakers(dot)net> wrote:
> On 9-8-2007 23:50 Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > Where the extra controller especially pays off is if you have to
> > expand to a second tray. It's easy to add trays but installing
> > controllers on a production server is scary.
>
> For connectivity-sake that's not a necessity. You can either connect
> (two?) extra MD1000's to your first MD1000 or you can use the second
> external SAS-port on your controller. Obviously it depends on the
> controller whether its good enough to just add the disks to it, rather
> than adding another controller for the second tray. Whether the perc5/e
> is good enough for that, I don't know, we've only equipped ours with a
> single MD1000 holding 15x 15k rpm drives, but in our benchmarks it
> scaled pretty well going from a few to all 14 disks (+1 hotspare).

completely correct....I was suggesting this on performance
terms...I've never done it with the Perc/5, but have done it with some
active/active SANs and it works really well.

merlin