From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: AMD 890GX vs 6Gbps SATA? Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:38:29 -0600 Message-ID: <4CE32405.7010604@hardwarefreak.com> References: <2DEEA3AB13739D45A22ADDB5086AEA0B915107@sshaexmb1.amd.com><1E8B869C0C6913418421A406C094DF7C82D812@sshaexmb1.amd.com><1E8B869C0C6913418421A406C094DF7C82D954@sshaexmb1.amd.com> <1E8B869C0C6913418421A406C094DF7C82DC6C@sshaexmb1.amd.com> <4CE32250.8050401@hardwarefreak.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mo-65-41-216-221.sta.embarqhsd.net ([65.41.216.221]:49138 "EHLO greer.hardwarefreak.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757563Ab0KQAia (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:38:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4CE32250.8050401@hardwarefreak.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "Huang, Shane" Cc: James Cloos , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, "Xu, Andiry" , "Petkov, Borislav" Stan Hoeppner put forth on 11/16/2010 6:31 PM: > Currently the only way to do this is with striped mech drives on a PMP, > or with a $500+ SSD. Let me correct that slightly. There are also host (OS) independent external RAID enclosures on the market with a real embedded RAID controller, and host connection via single or multiple lane eSATA. If using a single 3 Gb/s eSATA link with such an enclosure, with enough disks, you could easily saturate a 3 Gb/s link. Some of these may even saturate a single 6 Gb/s link depending on drive count and quality of the RAID controller. -- Stan