on Mon Jun 16 2008, "Owen Townend" <owen.townend-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, Hey. > Note, the 80 megabyte per second limit is a realistic limit given on > the aforementioned adaptec pages IIRC. This actually quite close to > the Firewire 800 limit ( 800 megabits per second = 800*10^6/(8*2^20) > ~= 95MiB/s theoretical max). Yeah, I wasn't thinking. > To get around the pci bandwidth limit the options are limited to > PCI-E and PCI-X which should both give ample headroom. My x16 PCI-E slots should give 4GB/s and my fastest PCI-X slot is 133Mhz are about 1GB per second. Okay, I guess PCI-X is fast enough for now; the cards are a lot cheaper than PCI-E cards. > I've seen the > SiL3124 chipset in both of these varieties, though they're a little > more expensive. > > For me I've gone the PCI route as I was low on storage, not > performance. It's mostly about the storage, but I don't want to limit myself either. Thanks again, everbody! -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
