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 18:45:30 -0500 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E9075CA.14836.3CA0E2B@localhost> References: <3E9038F4.30301.2DC6156@localhost> Reply-To: andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <3E90A651.5010700@attbi.com> Content-description: Mail message body List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > >>- > >>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 > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > >- > >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 > > > > > > > > - -- > > - ----------- > 73 de K6LNX > > Matt M. > LinuxKnight > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQE+kKZS84ta5vs8jhYRArGGAKDUsbfohx+31aN8ZwKeaCsd4wOk9QCgxuiT > /fIvvaBwWRdl3r9Ofq2WvMo= > =gh+2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > - > 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 >