[DRBD-user] Hardware-recomendation needed

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Sun Apr 1 14:16:42 CEST 2012

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Saturday 31 March 2012 15:08:59 Digimer wrote:
> On 03/31/2012 02:25 PM, Lukas Gradl wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 30.03.2012, 12:15 -0700 schrieb Digimer:
> >> Re: RAID 1; I've used these little adapters quite a bit in production
> >> and have not had any heat problems;
> >> 
> >> http://usa.chenbro.com/corporatesite/products_detail.php?sku=72
> > 
> > Thanks for that link - they look interesting.
> > 
> >> SSDs are nice, but they are not enterprise class (unless you have
> >> serious money). I'd recommend looking at 2x seagate 10k or 15k SAS
> >> drives. Plug those into an LSI 9265-8i with BBU and you will likely find
> >> the performance is quite nice, without inducing the risks of running
> >> into early failure on SSDs.
> > 
> > 2 LSI 6295 with BBU, 4 10k SAS drives, the mounting bays - that's around
> > 2500 EUR.
> > 
> > For now the system uses two local SATA-Drives with software-raid1 and
> > this setup is more than enough performance. Is there really no cheaper
> > solution to get DRBD up and running with the same perfomance than a
> > local Software-Raid1?
> I'm not sure I understand the question, sorry.
> 
> DRBD isn't much slower than the native disk performance, provided your
> network is fast enough.

I wouldn't sign that. While 1GB-network compares to current sata disks, the 
throughput isn't everything. There is also latency where the network layer in 
drbd introduces a factor of ten compared to pure local disks and when using C-
protocol. And when there are many users/apps accessing this resource, its the 
latency that makes them complain.

Have fun,

Arnold
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