From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Andrew B. Cramer" Subject: Re: Recomended IDE-RAID MB Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 14:25:56 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E9038F4.30301.2DC6156@localhost> References: <3E8F7C30.21091.31D33A@localhost>; from andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com on Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 01:00:32AM -0600 Reply-To: andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <20030406113829.B498@blackjesus.async.com.br> Content-description: Mail message body List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >