Andy,
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Andy Arvai wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody has any recommendations for PC's which would
> work well with software raid. In particular are there any fast machines
> which have multiple pci buses, each with 64-bit 64Mhz slots? The system
> I am building will have 2 adaptec 39160's along with a gigabit ethernet
> card.
I don't have that much experience with 64-bit 66MHz PCI slots, but I would
question whether you need to use two 39160's...
Each of the 39160's has two Ultra-160 channels. Bearing in mind that the
fastest SCSI disks could sustain about 40 MB/s, you can hang four disks
off each channel without making the bandwidth a limiting factor. If you
want to put more than eight disks onto your array, then you will need two
39160's of course - I just thought I'd mention it as very few people want
>8 disk arrays...
Regards,
Corin
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