On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:12 -0600, Dale wrote: > Neil Walker wrote: > > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an > >> external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not > >> PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast > > > > A quick Google led to this: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003 > > > > Be lucky, > > > > Neil > > > > > > Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a SATA > hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will the > PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/sec on my IDE > drives. Would this setup be any faster? > > Thanks > > Dale > > :-) :-)
Short answer: no. Long answer: You'd need to flood your PCI-bus with data to see any drop in speed. Ways to do it? Buy four disks and build a RAID1 using Linux device mapper. Since the data sent to the devices is not replicated on a RAID-controller (e.g. after transfer through PCI) but in software, you'd send four times the amount of data through your poor old PCI-bus.
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