On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote:
On Monday 25 February 2008 15:02:31 Justin Piszcz wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote:
Currently my array consists of four Samsung Spinpoint sATA drives, I'm
about to enlarge to 6 drive.
As of now they sit on an Sil3114 controller via PCI, hence there's a
bottleneck, can't squeeze more than 15-30 megs write speed (rather 15
today as the xfs partitions on it are brim full and started fragmenting).
Now, I'd like to go for a AMD board with 6 sATA channels connected via
PCIe - can someone recomend a board here? Preferrably AMD 690 based so I
won't need a video card or similar.
Dex
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That's always the question, which mobo? I went Intel as many of their
chipsets (965, p35, x38) have 6 SATA, I am sure AMD have some as well
though, what I bought awhile back was a 6 port sata w/ 3 pci-e x1 and 1
pci-e x16. Then you buy the 2 port sata cards (x1) and plugin your
drives.
Intel means big bucks since I'd need an intel cpu, too. Cheapest lga775 would
be around 90 euros where I get a midrange amd x2 at 50-60.
Promise also came out with a 4 port PCI-e x1 card but I have not tried it,
seen any reviews for it and do not know if it is even supported in linux.
Now *that's* Promis-ing (huh huh) - happen to know the model name?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102117
Type SATA / SAS
Also, I'd recommend you run a check/resync on your array before removing
it from your current box, and then make sure the two new drives do not
have any problems, and (to be safe?) expand by adding 1 drive at a time?
Neil Brown told me to expand 2 drives at once, but I'll back up the array
anyway to be safe and simply recreate. I guess selling the 750gig drive at
ebay with 5 bucks off should do :)
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