Hi There,
We've recently added an MSA60 with 12 1TB disks in for image backups. Currently the drive is running really really slowly. Its connected to a windows server via a p600 RAID card. The serverhardware is decent (dual cpu, 4gb ram, SCSI).
The MSA is currently setup with 5 x RAID 5 and Global hot spare.
I really need to get this array performing better as our image copies are taking ages. What would be the best setup? Scrapping the 2x RAID5 and Opting for a RAID10? Would running Linux help at all (the drives are heavily defragmented after a months use)?
Any options would be appreciated. If you have any good website stats or comparison links for speed that'd be good too.
Cheers,
We've recently added an MSA60 with 12 1TB disks in for image backups. Currently the drive is running really really slowly. Its connected to a windows server via a p600 RAID card. The serverhardware is decent (dual cpu, 4gb ram, SCSI).
The MSA is currently setup with 5 x RAID 5 and Global hot spare.
I really need to get this array performing better as our image copies are taking ages. What would be the best setup? Scrapping the 2x RAID5 and Opting for a RAID10? Would running Linux help at all (the drives are heavily defragmented after a months use)?
Any options would be appreciated. If you have any good website stats or comparison links for speed that'd be good too.
Cheers,
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