On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:47:59PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:43:47PM -0500, Paul Aviles wrote: > > Are SATA drives similar in performance than IDE drives? I have tested > > Barracudas 7200.0 (500Gb) and WD too on the same type of servers (more than > > 1 unit) and what I am getting is painfully slow in terms of read/writes. > > Anyone out there with similar experience or this is just my isolated > > results? > > Probably depends on your controller and configuration. If it's an > integrated controller, boot into your BIOS and make sure that any kind > of "Native/Legacy Mode" option is set to "Native mode". > > I don't know what the difference is, but I've seen Legacy mode boxes > crawl... I believe it toggles AHCI, which should give a performance boost if the reads are random and your disks (and chipset?) support NCQ. - 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
