Dan Easley wrote:
Now I'm in the market for a brand new computer, that I'd like to throw
some 500gig sata drives in. Has anyone had any experience using
really big drives like that with onboard sata controllers? If so,
what brand/chipset drive/motherboards are you using? (feel free to
reply privately if you think this will degenerate into advertisements)
I've a big pile of servers like this, with more to come:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856152013
Using 250GB and 500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives. Solid as a rock.
Warning: on-board RAID sucks with most motherboards. It's not really
RAID, it's called "fake RAID" (works on Windows with some special drivers).
If you really want to do hardware RAID, buy a card (see below).
I did some serious data mining on a couple of them, with a big MySQL 5
database and software RAID (mirroring). The thing moves pretty fast. Now
I put 3ware 9650SE SATA PCI Express RAID cards in a couple servers and
will rebuild the database in a single-master replication schema. Once I
get the battery backup I will enable the write cache. I expect to see a
performance increase with that.
I've two 500GB drives each server in mirror RAID just for the database.
I even played with 750GB drives on a slightly older architecture, I
think it's the GT20 instead of GT24, worked pretty well.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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