From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Korstad Subject: Re: future hardware Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:56:16 -0500 Message-ID: <1161986176.3068.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <000901c6f509$1bd65560$eb00000a@mine3ad5e808fe> <45427892.4070008@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-3Uwa7K8Su71LmrCfLztB" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45427892.4070008@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --=-3Uwa7K8Su71LmrCfLztB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have a case what will fit seven HD in standard bays. Than I have four bays of 5.25 for DVD/CD drives, so I bought this; http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=3DN82E16841101035 leaving me one 5.25 left for the fan. In addition to the fan in the item above, I have the exhaust fan on the Power Supply, another 12mm exhaust fan and a 12mm intake that blows across the other HDs. This is my current case, with a little mod for an extra drive; http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=3DN82E16811133133 I have ten drives in it now. Two in a RAID1 for the OS and eight in a RAID6. If I were to do it again, I would buy this... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=3DN82E16811112064 On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 17:22 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Dan wrote: >=20 > >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 card= s > >each with 4 ports to give me an eight disk RAID 6. I also have a Gig NI= C, > >on the PCI bus. I have Gig switches with clients connecting to it at Gi= g > >speed. > > > >As many know you get a peak transfer rate of 133 MB/s or 1064Mb/s from t= hat > >PCI bus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Component_Interconnect > > > >The transfer rate is not bad across the network but my bottle neck it th= e > >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 NVID= IA > >nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX. > > > >What are other users of mdadm using with the PCI-express cards, most cos= t > >effective solution? > > > There may still be m/b available with multiple PCI busses. Don't know if=20 > you are interested in a low budget solution, but that would address=20 > bandwidth and use existing hardware. >=20 > Idle curiousity: what kind of case are you using for the drives? I will=20 > need to spec a machine with eight drives in the December-January timefram= e. >=20 --=-3Uwa7K8Su71LmrCfLztB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARUKAf6LXAbJFWFH0AQK2nRAAxnt+YhR/u8182UhjbwV8LmTNPvZ/SeHq YeP45u3rKmtXKa7UCU+l7AwGC6AhHa8J00WXWpBuHP+GALe2U6Je1AZi4Pjv5hSz 9iVfSPe9tA2FZ99LD2Piaq6GtXEVF8eEFHTOjiO/be1DnqXLX4jCOC26Gwkkf/yF 4vAkVy2YAC2l+rHGNuzhe1KW/RAYV1yBSm4s/0DhsSkOtFnDJAimx0KyBm+h+6Yz 7IO4/9yzHauQTsLPPYkMs1UJxrEQo3pe2T7f+Quz1Uav26DvYJJpLG44I6OBftCz 8K/uH8rWlzdTzm0cZzgzBZjrPZEPdDFylErQNo+tvDuOYSsXleiz/7vprD/Bvakz NEcL0AZcGrXej+Tdc4QNXuqiJgX8Ua3b32/kzU6itawuQKp+bJrqkTsWj4kjmaRV Xzbt0ahKYh69PjHkpMR66xUT4yZzKlrXNp0WkR6yqXVfUp8pPMrAa3Amf3M1YCvf hV4HlTZJC/641/GSfTVdoNzYedX8EEyTBXfm2kr06N+lKZQEvVVsm0baWQFF/Ac/ xHf2lNbhikoNUHwQ1FnVh+R0MBkbo5aO3bAhD5rFF9fuqpAnV34BR+UNySyQlW+v clmmPyNEmehRfsgRLlf6Yh47rWJ6D5r6zLE6nCNiPpi/g2B8jdm4AZg81jtiJLHs Q5Clu2lMesk= =gyuM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3Uwa7K8Su71LmrCfLztB--