On 14 Feb 2006, at 20:18, Brandon Mercer wrote:
>> Has anybody managed to get the CERC SATA raid controller running
>> on 3.8 or 3.9-stable? Alternatively, where's the cheapest source
>> of LSI SATA cards? Can I boot from a system installed on an LSI
>> card?
>
> LSI cards, as has been talked to death in the archives, are GREAT
> cards, of course the work and boot properly. :-) Also, newegg
> usually has them at a good price. Brandon
Unfortunately:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16816118007
Looks like we'll be spending a bit more cash on this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16816118015
I'm intrigued by the comment:
> Although it will function in a PCI slot,the throughput is marginal
> even with 4 x 36 gig raptors in RAID 0. I was expecting at least
> 150 mbps transfer rates and Im only geting 80. Technical support
> was knowlegable and I didn't have to wait more than 5 minutes to
> talk to someone. The informed me that this card performs best in a
> 64 bit/100 mhz slot such as a server board. IMHO its price is not
> justified vs the performance in a 32 bit system
The application we have for the server does not require heavy data-
throughput, so this bottleneck wouldn't be too much of a problem, but
if I can spend a few more quid on a different mobo to get double the
speed, I'd like to. What am I looking for here, motherboards that
will take a 64 bit CPU and have 100Mhz PCI slots? That's a PCI-X
card, no?
Gaby
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