On Monday 25 February 2008 15:02:31 Justin Piszcz wrote: > 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. Intel means big bucks since I'd need an intel cpu, too. Cheapest lga775 would be around 90 euros where I get a midrange amd x2 at 50-60. > > 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. Now *that's* Promis-ing (huh huh) - happen to know the model name? > > 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? Neil Brown told me to expand 2 drives at once, but I'll back up the array anyway to be safe and simply recreate. I guess selling the 750gig drive at ebay with 5 bucks off should do :) -- -----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
