Sandy Drobic wrote:
The only thing that struck me as weird is that the controller didn't take much time to create the raid - less than a minute. Last time I made a raid (2 10krpm SCSI 74gb discs on an Adaptec card) that took a couple of hours.
Modern RAID controllers can initialize the RAID as a background task. That way you can immediately install your system while the controller continues to build the RAID.
Hi guys The machine have been standing idle since friday, and this morning when got to the office it was still krr krr krr -ing away. Shouldn't it have been done creating the raid yet? It's still writing at 7mb/s odd... I'm beginning to wonder if it would be better just to use the raid controller as normal SATA controller (the card uses three Silicon Image 3112a controllers, which I know to work a lot faster), and create a software raid? Is this card even properly supported (as far as performance goes) under linux? I'm not finding much useful info on that.