Re: Recomended IDE-RAID MB

[Matt McKenzie <linuxknight@attbi.com>]

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