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On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:12 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Walker wrote: |
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> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> >> I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an |
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> >> external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not |
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> >> PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast |
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> > A quick Google led to this: |
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> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124003 |
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> > Be lucky, |
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> > Neil |
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> Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a SATA |
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> hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will the |
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> PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/sec on my IDE |
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> drives. Would this setup be any faster? |
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> Thanks |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Short answer: no. |
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Long answer: |
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You'd need to flood your PCI-bus with data to see any drop in speed. |
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Ways to do it? Buy four disks and build a RAID1 using Linux device |
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mapper. Since the data sent to the devices is not replicated on a |
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RAID-controller (e.g. after transfer through PCI) but in software, you'd |
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send four times the amount of data through your poor old PCI-bus. |
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