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Thank you both for the comments. This helps. |
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> From: Heinz Sporn <heinz.sporn@××××××××.com> |
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> Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 01:42:20 EDT |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> CC: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××××.net> |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID |
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> Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 00:59 -0400 schrieb Ron Bickers: |
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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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> It seems as if I'm having pretty much the same layout in several of my |
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> servers. Running Software Raid 1 on 200GB Seagate SATA drives. Worked |
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> out of the box with vanilla sources 2.6.12.5. I recommend using mdadm to |
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> build the array instead of using the older RAID tools described in the |
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> Gentoo Wiki. |
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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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