Re: board/controller recommendations?

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

On Monday 25 February 2008 19:50:52 Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > 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?
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102117
> Type  	 SATA / SAS

Full blown raid 50 controller. A tad overkill-ish for softraid.
I just came across this one:

http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a254413.html

One would have to have a board featuring pcie 4x or 1x mechanically open at 
the end.
Then again, there's this board:

http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a244789.html

If that controller runs in Linux those two would make a nice combo. Just saw 
Adaptec provides open src drivers for Linux, so chances are it's included or 
at least scheduled.



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