On Wednesday, June 18, Seth Hollen wrote: > 3ware makes great controllers, but you will be limited to the pci bus > bandwidth for the raid arrays. > instead of 8x40 I would look for the best cost/size ratio. I > think 120GB > hard drives can be found for around $100.00 (us) > I'd put 3 in a raid5 array for performance.
Hi Seth and Tim: One other comment - the Escalade 7500 series cards are PCI-X cards (64-bit) if you can afford the motherboard that has these slots, having that extra bandwidth will be a big performance boost. I'm using the 7500-4LP and 4x120GB Western Digital drives in my backup server right now - it's a sweet setup! :-) Later, -- Kevin L. Collins, MCSE Systems Manager Nesbitt Engineering, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
