> Why would you plug thousands of dollars of SSD into an onboard > controller? It's probably running off a 1x PCIE shared with every > other onboard device. An LSI 8x 8 port HBA will run you a few > hundred(less than 1 SSD) and let you melt your northbridge. At least > on my Supermicro X8DTL boards I had to add active cooling to it or it > would overheat and crash at sustained IO. I can hit 2 - 2.5GB a second > doing large sequential IO with Samsung 840 Pros on a RAID10. Those onboard controllers are usually connect to 8x PCIe or similar. Also, those controllers from LSI won't allow TRIM support, which may come in handy… Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 98013356 roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ GPG Public key: http://karlsbakk.net/roysigurdkarlsbakk.pubkey.txt -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med xenotyp etymologi. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. -- 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
