Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-28 Thread Petteri Räty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: Any specfic controller cards recommendations for SATA(2) are of interest too. I would check the list of supported hardware from make menuconfig. TIA, James Regards, Petteri Räty -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-28 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, James wrote: Has anyone successfully deploy mulitple SATA-2 drives in a Gentoo Server? If so, have you benchmarked the performance of these drives? If so, are you happy with the price/performance of SATA-2 or what would you recommend for price/performance on a mid-range

[gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-27 Thread James
Hello, Has anyone successfully deploy mulitple SATA-2 drives in a Gentoo Server? If so, have you benchmarked the performance of these drives? If so, are you happy with the price/performance of SATA-2 or what would you recommend for price/performance on a mid-range Gentoo server? Any specfic

Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

2005-07-27 Thread Bill Roberts
I inherited two Western Digital Raptor 74G SATA drives. They run at 10,000 rpm, 4.5 seek time. I was prepared to be unimpressed, but they are phenomenonly fast and quiet. I strongly recommend them. I am running them as a RAID 0, connected directly to the motherboard, using linux software RAID.