On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote:
On Monday 25 February 2008 19:50:52 Justin Piszcz wrote:
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
Full blown raid 50 controller. A tad overkill-ish for softraid.
I just came across this one:
http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a254413.html
One would have to have a board featuring pcie 4x or 1x mechanically open at
the end.
Then again, there's this board:
http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a244789.html
If that controller runs in Linux those two would make a nice combo. Just saw
Adaptec provides open src drivers for Linux, so chances are it's included or
at least scheduled.
Yeah I heard there are major problems with those (adaptec boards), that is why
I went with the open source 2 port sata pci-e cards, work like a charm.
Justin.
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