Raid can only do so much for throughput though. I mean, I guess it's an alright storage method... if you don't need to use any of it.

 

yeah I know. I would never use that many IDE drives for any reason.

I've tested 6 Ultra 320 73GB drives push 280mbs/s through our SCSI controller using what we call HostRAID on the card. Connected to a PCI-X slot.



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Well, that new Serial ATA is supposed to be pretty good, but I haven't had a chance to play around with it yet. Theoretically 200 mbps throughput without the problems of normal IDE. BUT I can't find any info on whether it's still CPU controlled.

 

not right now.

it's 150mb/s. from what I've seen it's pretty efficient as far as CPU utilization goes.

but they will be scaled to 300mb/s and possibly a bit higher. all of which makes little difference until there are 4 port and 6 or 8 port SATA controllers available.

I know there will be a 4 port SATA raid controller available soon that will support all major OSes, Linux, Unixware, SCO, etc

the main problems SATA solves is the cable length issue and the IDE bus sharing issues. since you can only attach one drive per port there is no sharing of available bandwidth on that port.

 

Is that full of pr0n?!

 

ABIT has SATA RAID mainboards out already, I was peeking at them last night. At ~$100, it's looking pretty good for small database and web serving.

 

painted flat black...

 

yep I know.

it's probably using Silicon Image SATA chip. Most of the industry is using that chip. Marvell demonstrated a new SATA chip that blew away the competition. but they cheated and used special (not yet available) hdds from seagate that only they had at the time.


Right now you can buy regular SATA controllers and 2 port SATA RAID card with minimal RAID functions. 0 and 1 only.

 

Abit is 0 and 1. ASUS has 0 1 and 10 boards.

 

I wish I could afford that many drives... but I don't really NEED that much space... I have a 40 & a 15 and I barely use 12GB total...