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Loading PCI bus with more plain SATA controllers? Don't expect any
positive results.
I was under the impression that the promise cards actually offloaded
some of the work, but I guess that can only happen with raid cards
that present one disc to the OS.
How about something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330240176734
(PERC 5/i SAS RAID controller HBA, PCIe x8, 256MB RAM) -- $120
This should give you ~300-400 MB/s with your 5 drives. It might not work
with your mainboard, though -- but there's a trick to isolate SMBus pins
the card edge connector (search the Net).
Definately has potential.
I think I might first focus on a motherboard that has a well supported
IO chipset. If I can get over 200Mb accross the whole array then I'll
be happy.
After that I will look at a decent quality raid card.
-D
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