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I was fishing around pricewatch and found 9 GB SCSI micropolis 3391WS
SCSI3 disks and a mylex KT950 SCSI3 controller.  Five disks and the
controller add up to less than $1,200 - a great price for RAID-5 of
36GB.

Is this hardware worth it?  Does the controller rely on the CPU for all
processing?   I have one of the idiot SCSI mylex controllers in my
server now, and I think the CPU (a p5-166) can't keep up with it.

I have never done any SCSI raid arrays.  Any advice is greatly
appreciated.

TIA

Yan
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On Thu, 05 Aug 1999 11:54:20 -0400, Yan Seinerr

micropolis is bancrupt - so you cannot count on any guarantees probably.

Quote:

>Is this hardware worth it?  Does the controller rely on the CPU for all
>processing?   I have one of the idiot SCSI mylex controllers in my
>server now, and I think the CPU (a p5-166) can't keep up with it.

>I have never done any SCSI raid arrays.  Any advice is greatly
>appreciated.

try in comp.periphs.scsi and mention why you need it and what you expect
from it. IIRC micropolis has an extremely bad name, so that you'd *need*
the raid5 to get some reliable storage - which is not the idea at all.

I see some ibm DNES 18 Gb drives for around $650 here and I wonder if 2
of them wouldn't be faster and more reliable....

Greetings,
Jurriaan

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