On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote:
Currently my array consists of four Samsung Spinpoint sATA drives, I'm about to enlarge to 6 drive. As of now they sit on an Sil3114 controller via PCI, hence there's a bottleneck, can't squeeze more than 15-30 megs write speed (rather 15 today as the xfs partitions on it are brim full and started fragmenting). Now, I'd like to go for a AMD board with 6 sATA channels connected via PCIe - can someone recomend a board here? Preferrably AMD 690 based so I won't need a video card or similar. Dex -- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a- C++++ UL++ P+>++ L+++>++++ E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++(---)@ 5 X+(++) R+(++) tv--(+)@ b++(+++) DI+++ D- G++ e* h>++ r* y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de - 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
That's always the question, which mobo? I went Intel as many of their chipsets (965, p35, x38) have 6 SATA, I am sure AMD have some as well though, what I bought awhile back was a 6 port sata w/ 3 pci-e x1 and 1 pci-e x16. Then you buy the 2 port sata cards (x1) and plugin your drives.
Promise also came out with a 4 port PCI-e x1 card but I have not tried it, seen any reviews for it and do not know if it is even supported in linux.
Also, I'd recommend you run a check/resync on your array before removing it from your current box, and then make sure the two new drives do not have any problems, and (to be safe?) expand by adding 1 drive at a time?
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