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On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: |
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> 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop |
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> system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD |
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> 1.6 with 2 gig |
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> of memory |
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I'm running several Seagate 200GB drives with the SATA controllers on the |
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Intel 915G boards I have. The driver is included with the kernel (ata_piix) |
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and I've had no problems with it. Linux treats it as a SCSI device. If |
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you're buying a separate card, you might want to check around for |
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availability and stability of the drivers first. |
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In my experience, audio recording has relatively low hardware requirements |
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for today's machines, unless you're trying to do some heaving |
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encoding/compressing on-the-fly. |
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> 2. If I went with SATA how much does using software RAID and LVM hurt me? |
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That depends on what you mean by RAID (0, 1, 5, etc.) and what you want out |
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of it. I have two 200GB SATA drives setup with LVM's striping and the read |
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and write throughput is considerably faster (benchmarked and perceived) than |
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with one drive. |
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> 3. Anything else I should know? |
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Your choice of file system may make as much of a difference as anything. |
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Consider running tests if you aren't married to one already. |
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Ron |
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