On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 11:02, Mark Hahn wrote: > > According to Adaptec, their 16 port card with 64bit 66MHz PCI will > > transfer up to 1.5gigabit/s. That's a tad low I must say, that's only 190 > > I think they're clearly pulling a marketing-weasel on you: > the 1.5 gbps is from sata's peak/theoretical/never data rate. I routinely get 1.5 Gbits/sec on my 3ware, 8 port (8506-8) controller. 8 SATA, 250GB WD disks (JBOD mode). Like the Adaptec, it is also a 64bit 66MHz PCI. Of course, reads are 1 megabyte each (but random on disk, not sequential), but still, it is possible. Scott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html