Re: board/controller recommendations?

[Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de>]

On Monday 25 February 2008 15:02:31 Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > Currently my array consists of four Samsung Spinpoint sATA drives, I'm
> > about to enlarge to 6 drive.
> > As of now they sit on an Sil3114 controller via PCI, hence there's a
> > bottleneck, can't squeeze more than 15-30 megs write speed (rather 15
> > today as the xfs partitions on it are brim full and started fragmenting).
> >
> > Now, I'd like to go for a AMD board with 6 sATA channels connected via
> > PCIe - can someone recomend a board here? Preferrably AMD 690 based so I
> > won't need a video card or similar.
> >
> > Dex
> >
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> That's always the question, which mobo?  I went Intel as many of their
> chipsets (965, p35, x38) have 6 SATA, I am sure AMD have some as well
> though, what I bought awhile back was a 6 port sata w/ 3 pci-e x1 and 1
> pci-e x16.  Then you buy the 2 port sata cards (x1) and plugin your
> drives.

Intel means big bucks since I'd need an intel cpu, too. Cheapest lga775 would 
be around 90 euros where I get a midrange amd x2 at 50-60.

>
> Promise also came out with a 4 port PCI-e x1 card but I have not tried it,
> seen any reviews for it and do not know if it is even supported in linux.

Now *that's* Promis-ing (huh huh) - happen to know the model name?

>
> Also, I'd recommend you run a check/resync on your array before removing
> it from your current box, and then make sure the two new drives do not
> have any problems, and (to be safe?) expand by adding 1 drive at a time?

Neil Brown told me to expand 2 drives at once, but I'll back up the array 
anyway to be safe and simply recreate. I guess selling the 750gig drive at 
ebay with 5 bucks off should do :)



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