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Scott T. Smith wrote: | On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 08:24, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: | |>On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Jim Buttafuoco wrote: |> |> |>>I am switching all of my 3ware controllers over to Adaptec SATA raid |>>controllers. I am getting better performance with them. Jim |> |>I am quite curious about the 16port SATA controller Adaptec has now. Do |>you have any filesystem write figures for this controller under linux and |>ext3? | | | One main problem with the 16port controller, at least in JBOD mode, is | that there is not enough PCI bandwidth to fill the disks if you do large | writes. Thus two separate 8port controllers, on separate PCI busses, | should yield higher performance. | | OTOH, if you're doing small ops, or RAID1, it will probably be fine. | | (disclaimer -- I haven't tried the Adaptec boards yet, but they're on my | list, along with Highpoint's) | | Scott
Highpoint have a multi port PCI-X card out (but no open drivers support it) Are there any others multi-sata PCI-X cards?
I'm thinking about building a 2Tb SW RAID but will wait a few months because I want PCI-X or similar to get the bandwidth to the gigabit card.
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