On Monday 25 February 2008 19:50:52 Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > 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? > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102117 > Type SATA / SAS Full blown raid 50 controller. A tad overkill-ish for softraid. I just came across this one: http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a254413.html One would have to have a board featuring pcie 4x or 1x mechanically open at the end. Then again, there's this board: http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a244789.html If that controller runs in Linux those two would make a nice combo. Just saw Adaptec provides open src drivers for Linux, so chances are it's included or at least scheduled. -- -----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
