Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 00:59 -0400 schrieb Ron Bickers:
> 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.
It seems as if I'm having pretty much the same layout in several of my
servers. Running Software Raid 1 on 200GB Seagate SATA drives. Worked
out of the box with vanilla sources 2.6.12.5. I recommend using mdadm to
build the array instead of using the older RAID tools described in the
Gentoo Wiki.
>
> 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
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