[gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

[gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

[James]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

[Bill Roberts]

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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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> 

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[gentoo-user] Re: OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

[James]

Bill Roberts <billbalt <at> eyeofthequark.com> writes:


> I inherited two Western Digital Raptor 74G SATA drives. 


>     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

Those are impressive numbers.
Thanks,

James

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 00:35 +0000, James wrote:
> Bill Roberts <billbalt <at> eyeofthequark.com> writes:
> 
> 
> > I inherited two Western Digital Raptor 74G SATA drives. 
> 
> 
> >     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 sure.. but hdparm is supposed to be only accurate for IDE isn't it?

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

[Petteri Räty]

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James wrote:

> Any specfic controller cards recommendations for SATA(2) are 
> of interest too.

I would check the list of supported hardware from make menuconfig.

> 
> TIA,
> James
> 

Regards,
Petteri Räty
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

[A. Khattri]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, James wrote:

> 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.

http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html


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[gentoo-user] Re: OT SATA-2 drive support in Gentoo

[James]

A. Khattri <ajai <at> bway.net> writes:

> > Any specfic controller cards recommendations for SATA(2) are
> > of interest too.

> http://linux.yyz.us/sata/sata-status.html


This is a rather cool list. Very convenient.

Thanks!

James



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