[Asterisk-Users] Re: RAID affecting X100P performance...

[Stephen R. Besch]

Scott Laird wrote:

> In the context of Asterisk, where disk I/O is either logging or 
> voicemail, buying a 3ware card and a pair of IDE drives seems like a 
> decent business decision.
> 
I agree.  Even more to the point, when using T100P's which need high 
quality, fast service from the CPU and the host bus, I would recommend 
putting your RAID in a separate box. Any cheap MOBO with a raid card, 
software raid, onboard raid controller, etc., should suffice since the 
only thing it will be doing is RAID and the maximum I/O rate will be 
10MB per second or so, limited by the ethernet speed. If you use 
internet for a voice channel, make sure that you use a separate NIC to 
talk to the RAID, and assign it a lower interrupt priority than those 
used by the telephony hardware.

Stephen R. Besch