Re: Recomended IDE-RAID MB

["Andrew B. Cramer" <andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com>]

Christian,
	Thank you for your input. Just about any speed drive will eat up a T-
1. I'm just looking for maybe most supported, and reliable. Drives 
are cheap and I will be getting either ATA100 or 133 drives.

Best - Andrew

On 6 Apr 2003 at 11:38, Christian Reis wrote:

> 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
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