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From: Christian Reis <kiko@async.com.br>
To: "Andrew B. Cramer" <andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com>
Cc: linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Recomended IDE-RAID MB
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 11:38:29 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030406113829.B498@blackjesus.async.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E8F7C30.21091.31D33A@localhost>; from andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com on Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 01:00:32AM -0600

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 01:00:32AM -0600, Andrew B. Cramer wrote:
> 
> 	What brand of motherboard would you use for just mirroring two huge 
> IDE drives?

I'd just make sure the drives were fast, that the MB supported ATA100
and that you used 80w IDE cables. My Soyo Dragon Plus gets fairly good
throughput; unfortunately, my drives are too slow, which means the total
performance would be better than:

Version 1.02c       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
blackjesus     512M  7128  64  8339   6  4925   3  8256  70 13530   5 161.1   0
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP /sec %CP
                 16 11707  97 +++++ +++ 13882  99  8859  76 +++++ +++ 12141 100

In my experience it takes at the most 5 minutes to resync the
(on-average) 2GB partitions it is cut up into.

This board also includes Promise IDE Hardware RAID, but I've never used
it and can't comment on its performance.

Take care,
--
Christian Reis, Senior Engineer, Async Open Source, Brazil.
http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 261 2331 | NMFL

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-06 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-06  7:00 Recomended IDE-RAID MB Andrew B. Cramer
2003-04-06 14:38 ` Christian Reis [this message]
2003-04-06 19:25   ` Andrew B. Cramer
2003-04-06 22:12     ` Matt McKenzie
2003-04-06 23:45       ` Andrew B. Cramer
2003-04-07 13:43 ` Kernel Panic Ben Clewett
2003-04-07 13:48   ` Jamie Harris
2003-04-07 14:22     ` Ben Clewett

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