From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt McKenzie Subject: Re: Recomended IDE-RAID MB Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 15:12:33 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E90A651.5010700@attbi.com> References: <3E8F7C30.21091.31D33A@localhost>; from andrew.cramer@cramer-ts.com on Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 01:00:32AM -0600 <3E9038F4.30301.2DC6156@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3E9038F4.30301.2DC6156@localhost> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org -----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-----