Quote Originally Posted by skycrane View Post
yea poke, can you send me the pms id like to see what this can do before MM destroyes us all with his 12core machine hes got... lol

well this sucks, looks like the disks i got wont work, they are to slow to move that amount of data Particle was talking about. maybe ill see if i can use my brothers NAS hes got. do you think on a gigabit line, if i have enough disks for it, that it would be fast enough to handle the bandwidth?
or would it be better to run 7 or 8 drives off the mobo?


poke, here are the updated of my runs i did. they are a bit faster. i had some programs running in the background , and i was doing this over my NetOp and it was slowing down all my runs

Do whatever you can to maximize your total combined bandwidth. (though it's still bottlenecked by the slowest drive)
So I don't think gigabit network is gonna work since that's only 128 MB/s. Keep everything on the mobo. SATA and SAS cards are fine - hardware RAID support isn't necessary since the program can take care of that.

Basically, whatever will preserve the combined total bandwidth will work. That seems to be the only thing that matters...


My 4 x 2TB Hitachi drives get about 450 - 480 MB/s. (as measured by process explorer while y-cruncher is running)
I keep them separate and let the program manage them. So no RAID 0.

I have one of these on my workstation:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-009-_-Product

It's great and it preserves all the bandwidth. It's cheap because it doesn't have raid.
Next year, that card is gonna to be fully loaded because I'll be moving my 4 x 2TB from my Core i7 machine into my Xeon Workstation.
(Optical Drive + 64 GB SSD + 750GB + 4 x 1TB + 4 x 2TB + 3 external SATA = 14 total = 6 on mobo + 8 on card)

I know of others who are using some more expensive SAS cards... they all work.


I've added Dave's #'s to the list... Devastating - even with v0.4.4...