Re: Recomended IDE-RAID MB

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

Thanks,
	I like TYAN except they have been quite restrictive with memory 
requirements before. I'll look at their products again. I think the 
AHA-RAID chip makes more sense.

Cheers - Andrew (ICQ # 243211228)

On 6 Apr 2003 at 15:12, Matt McKenzie wrote:

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> In my experience where I work, the Tyan motherboards with built in RAID 
> work well.
> Some of them have Promise RAID chip, and the higher end ones have 
> Adaptec RAID chip, integrated on the motherboard.
> 
> I have no throughput test numbers to give.
> 
> 
> 
> Andrew B. Cramer wrote:
> 
> >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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> Matt M.
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