Dear Iain Rauch, In message <C571C6FB.BA32%groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > If you have PCIe slots (which is likely if the board is less than a couple But the Supermicro card is a PCI-X card - AFAIK there are no PCIe versions available (yet?). > of years old), you are better to use them as they are faster than PCI/PCI-X. Ummm. It depends. Throughput can be hight, but I think latencies are higher, too. So the actual performance depends on your system load. If you have enough small requests PCI-X may even be faster. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. -- 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
