RE: Asus M2NPV-VM RAID and SMP64 feedback

2009-11-24 Thread David Christensen
Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Mostly to experiment, I set up hardware RAID striping today using one 300 GB SATA II NCQ drive, one SATA II NCQ 320 GB drive, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), and the Asus driver raid-MakeDisk_XP-8.24.zip. Sandra 1599 benchmarked read access at 117 MB/s; write access was simi

Re: Asus M2NPV-VM RAID and SMP64 feedback

2009-11-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2009/11/24 David Christensen : > What are you trying to accomplish?  Server?  Workstation?  What software?   > What users?  Why RAID? Desktop pc + homeserver, although i'm reading up on virtualization before i go into the homeserver part. Why RAID... why not...? Mostly to experiment, if/when i f

RE: Asus M2NPV-VM RAID and SMP64 feedback

2009-11-23 Thread David Christensen
Nuno Magalhães wrote: > I'm considering upgrading my box in an either-or scenario. > *) either i buy an AMD Phenom X4 (9650, no TLB issue; socket AM2+ is > compatible with AM2) to replace my Athlon64; or > *) i buy one 500+ GB SATA-2 drive; or two with RAID. I'm considering > Western Digital, two o

Re: Asus M2NPV-VM RAID and SMP64 feedback

2009-11-23 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:08:13 + Nuno Magalhães dijo: > *) either i buy an AMD Phenom X4 (9650, no TLB issue; socket AM2+ is > compatible with AM2) to replace my Athlon64; or > *) i buy one 500+ GB SATA-2 drive; or two with RAID. I'm considering > Western Digital, two of them with 32Mb cache ar

Asus M2NPV-VM RAID and SMP64 feedback

2009-11-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I'm considering upgrading my box in an either-or scenario. *) either i buy an AMD Phenom X4 (9650, no TLB issue; socket AM2+ is compatible with AM2) to replace my Athlon64; or *) i buy one 500+ GB SATA-2 drive; or two with RAID. I'm considering Western Digital, two of them with 32Mb cache are