I inherited two Western Digital Raptor 74G SATA drives. They run at 10,000
rpm, 4.5 seek time.  I was prepared to be unimpressed, but they are
phenomenonly fast and quiet. I strongly recommend them.

I am running them as a RAID 0, connected directly to the motherboard, using
linux software RAID. 

If you want hardware RAID, 3ware seems to be the ticket.

    hdparm -Tt /dev/md0

    /dev/md0:
    Timing cached reads:   3080 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1538.70 MB/sec
    Timing buffered disk reads:  410 MB in  3.00 seconds = 136.46 MB/sec

Not cheap, but I think they're worth every nickel.

Bill Roberts

On 18:19 Wed 27 Jul     , James wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Has anyone successfully deploy mulitple SATA-2 drives in a Gentoo Server?
> If so, have you benchmarked the performance of these drives?
> If so, are you happy with the price/performance of SATA-2
> or what would you recommend for price/performance on a mid-range
> Gentoo server?
> 
> Any specfic controller cards recommendations for SATA(2) are 
> of interest too.
> 
> TIA,
> James
> 
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