On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 17:14 -0700, bdameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Quoting Ming Zhang <mingz@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > will this 24 port card itself will be a bottleneck? > > > > ming > > Since the card is PCI-X the only bottleneck on it might be the Processor since > it is shared with all 24 ports. But I do not know for sure without testing it. > I personally am going to stick with the new 16 port version. Which is a PCI- > Express card and has twice the CPU power. Since there are so many spindles it > should be pretty darn fast. And remember that even tho the drives are 150MBps > they realistically only do about 25-30MBps. the problem here is taht each HD can stably deliver 25-30MBps while the PCI-x will not arrive that high if have 16 or 24 ports. i do not have a chance to try out though. those bus at most arrive 70-80% the claimed peak # :P > > Brad Dameron > SeaTab Software > www.seatab.com > - > 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
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