From: "Dan" <dan@korstad.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: future hardware
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:04:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000901c6f509$1bd65560$eb00000a@mine3ad5e808fe> (raw)
I have been using an older 64bit system, socket 754 for a while now. It has
the old PCI bus 33Mhz. I have two low cost (no HW RAID) PCI SATA I cards
each with 4 ports to give me an eight disk RAID 6. I also have a Gig NIC,
on the PCI bus. I have Gig switches with clients connecting to it at Gig
speed.
As many know you get a peak transfer rate of 133 MB/s or 1064Mb/s from that
PCI bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect
The transfer rate is not bad across the network but my bottle neck it the
PCI bus. I have been shopping around for new MB and PCI-express cards. I
have been using mdadm for a long time and would like to stay with it. I am
having trouble finding an eight port PCI-express card that does not have all
the fancy HW RAID which jacks up the cost. I am now considering using a MB
with eight SATA II slots onboard. GIGABYTE GA-M59SLI-S5 Socket AM2 NVIDIA
nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX.
What are other users of mdadm using with the PCI-express cards, most cost
effective solution?
next reply other threads:[~2006-10-21 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-21 12:04 Dan [this message]
2006-10-21 16:52 ` future hardware Justin Piszcz
2006-10-22 2:38 ` Mike Hardy
2006-10-22 2:02 ` Richard Scobie
2006-10-27 21:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-10-27 21:56 ` Daniel Korstad
2006-10-27 22:18 ` Daniel Korstad
2006-10-29 22:29 ` Doug Ledford
2006-10-31 16:11 ` Rob Bray
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