Serra
09-12-2005, 11:42 AM
We talk a lot about how to increase performance here, and in that spirit I'm wondering if we can get some feedback from people who have tried different hard drive adapter cards (SATA preferred, but we'll take some SCSI users too). Why? Well SATA comes in 2 main flavours, 1.5Gbps and 3Gbps... but the theoretical throughput of a hard drive adapter card is 4.23Gbps* on PCI and 8.46GBps* on PCI-X! Not only that, good hard drive adapter cards come with their own on-board processors and cache. As an added bonus usually these come as RAID cards, and you can't ignore the bonus of a good RAID setup.
Personally, I'm looking at getting an Intel RAID controller w/ SATA 2 support, a 64MB cache of PC100 ECC memory, and a 100MHz processor (comes in around $400CDN)... but I want to make sure it's worth it first. Plus, it just would be neat to see some benches using one.
Personally, I'm looking at getting an Intel RAID controller w/ SATA 2 support, a 64MB cache of PC100 ECC memory, and a 100MHz processor (comes in around $400CDN)... but I want to make sure it's worth it first. Plus, it just would be neat to see some benches using one.