My moterboard (Tyan Tiger) does nto have SATA support so I need a separate card.
For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? > > From: Ron Bickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 12:59:51 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > CC: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID > > On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop > > system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD > > 1.6 with 2 gig > > of memory > > I'm running several Seagate 200GB drives with the SATA controllers on the > Intel 915G boards I have. The driver is included with the kernel (ata_piix) > and I've had no problems with it. Linux treats it as a SCSI device. If > you're buying a separate card, you might want to check around for > availability and stability of the drivers first. > > In my experience, audio recording has relatively low hardware requirements > for today's machines, unless you're trying to do some heaving > encoding/compressing on-the-fly. > > > 2. If I went with SATA how much does using software RAID and LVM hurt me? > > That depends on what you mean by RAID (0, 1, 5, etc.) and what you want out > of it. I have two 200GB SATA drives setup with LVM's striping and the read > and write throughput is considerably faster (benchmarked and perceived) than > with one drive. > > > 3. Anything else I should know? > > Your choice of file system may make as much of a difference as anything. > Consider running tests if you aren't married to one already. > > -- > Ron > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
