From: Nagilum <nagilum@nagilum.org>
To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Cc: Jon@eHardcastle.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding more drives/saturating the bandwidth
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:28:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090330182801.24395xahlmpcutwc@cakebox.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eiwf81e8.fsf@frosties.localdomain>
----- Message from goswin-v-b@web.de ---------
> Jon Hardcastle <jd_hardcastle@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Hey guys, How do you know if your machine can handle adding some
>> more drives to it? How can you check that there is enough BUS IO to
>> handle extra sata cards and also that the machine is powerful
>> enough to support say an 8 drive raid 5...
Maybe hdparm could abused for that?
Reporting the disk cache transfer rates for one or two disks at the same time?
----- End message from goswin-v-b@web.de -----
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-30 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-26 12:43 Adding more drives/saturating the bandwidth Jon Hardcastle
2009-03-30 15:40 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-03-30 16:28 ` Nagilum [this message]
2009-03-31 8:23 ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-03-31 13:05 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-03-31 21:07 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-01 8:15 ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-04-01 8:56 ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-04-01 15:59 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-01 16:15 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-04-01 14:56 ` Andrew Burgess
2009-04-01 15:17 ` David Lethe
2009-04-01 18:06 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-01 18:57 ` Richard Scobie
2009-04-03 20:42 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-03 21:06 ` Robin Hill
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