Do the machines have built in controller in the motherboard, or do they have a pci-e card that's hosting the disks?
From those pci-e cards there is plenty of benchmarks around, and basically they all struggle to get nearby 1GB/s bandwidth. From the motherboards i see 0 benchmarks putting disks on them and measuring aggregated bandwidth. Which chip is on the motherboard doing that and how many disks can it host? On Aug 27, 2012, at 3:55 PM, hol...@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de wrote: > >> So my simple question would be: is this better with the built in raid >> controllers that most motherboards have as they can use >> the fast 2.5Ghz Xeon cpu's? > > Im not going to be doing any hardware RAID. ZFS does everything in > software. > > > > > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
