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I inherited two Western Digital Raptor 74G SATA drives. They run at 10,000 |
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rpm, 4.5 seek time. I was prepared to be unimpressed, but they are |
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phenomenonly fast and quiet. I strongly recommend them. |
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I am running them as a RAID 0, connected directly to the motherboard, using |
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linux software RAID. |
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If you want hardware RAID, 3ware seems to be the ticket. |
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hdparm -Tt /dev/md0 |
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/dev/md0: |
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Timing cached reads: 3080 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1538.70 MB/sec |
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Timing buffered disk reads: 410 MB in 3.00 seconds = 136.46 MB/sec |
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Not cheap, but I think they're worth every nickel. |
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Bill Roberts |
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On 18:19 Wed 27 Jul , James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> Has anyone successfully deploy mulitple SATA-2 drives in a Gentoo Server? |
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> If so, have you benchmarked the performance of these drives? |
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> If so, are you happy with the price/performance of SATA-2 |
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> or what would you recommend for price/performance on a mid-range |
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> Gentoo server? |
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> Any specfic controller cards recommendations for SATA(2) are |
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> of interest too. |
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> TIA, |
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> James |
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> -- |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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