[DRBD-user] four bonded gigabit NICs

Bart Coninckx bart.coninckx at telenet.be
Thu May 13 17:06:45 CEST 2010

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On Thursday 13 May 2010 17:01:46 Bart Coninckx wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> would it make sense to use four bonded gigabit NICs when the DRBD storage
>  is, let's say, a RAID 5 on 10K RPM SAS drives? Or would 2 cards be
>  sufficient? I don't have the drives and the controller yet, so I have no
>  idea on what their performance is.
> 
> I'd like to order all hardware at once, but it is hard to get a grip on
> possible performance values.
> 
> Anyone any "feel" for this?
> 
> Thx!
> 
> 
> Bart
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mmm, googlen "DRBD bond four" pointed me to:

http://www.mail-archive.com/drbd-user@lists.linbit.com/msg00975.html

where Florian explains 4 is a bad idea. Two it is then. 

Cheers,

B.



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