On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:54:11AM +0800, M. Yu wrote: > I've read reports (some quite possibly made by Orly in this very list) > that sATA nowadays have very little difference with SCSI-based drives > when it comes to price/performance ratios, so I am considering using > sATA for my mail, ftp and web servers. I plan to use Slackware 9.1 > (kernel 2.4) and was wondering: > > 1. what you have to say about sATA performance for mail, web and ftp use
I think web and FTP servers in the Philippines are well within the range of IDE disk. mail - depends web cache - definitely :) > 2. what sATA RAID (0/1) cards are known to work well with kernel 2.4 am using the low end Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus, with 2x of this > Seagate ST3160023AS (160GB) sATA in striping mode. Beware, the core of the kernel driver is a binary-only .o. I'm no longer into ISP's, so this won't get worked up that hard. I got it mainly for a PostgreSQL server, but it's not yet running in production. So, the only stat I can give: # /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1424 MB in 2.00 seconds = 712.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 144 MB in 3.00 seconds = 48.00 MB/sec -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
