Dan Easley wrote:
>
> Now I'm in the market for a brand new computer, that I'd like to throw
> some 500gig sata drives in. Has anyone had any experience using
> really big drives like that with onboard sata controllers? If so,
> what brand/chipset drive/motherboards are you using? (feel free to
> reply privately if you think this will degenerate into advertisements)
I've a big pile of servers like this, with more to come:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856152013
Using 250GB and 500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives. Solid as a rock.
Warning: on-board RAID sucks with most motherboards. It's not really
RAID, it's called "fake RAID" (works on Windows with some special drivers).
If you really want to do hardware RAID, buy a card (see below).
I did some serious data mining on a couple of them, with a big MySQL 5
database and software RAID (mirroring). The thing moves pretty fast. Now
I put 3ware 9650SE SATA PCI Express RAID cards in a couple servers and
will rebuild the database in a single-master replication schema. Once I
get the battery backup I will enable the write cache. I expect to see a
performance increase with that.
I've two 500GB drives each server in mirror RAID just for the database.
I even played with 750GB drives on a slightly older architecture, I
think it's the GT20 instead of GT24, worked pretty well.
-- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-userReceived on Sun Apr 22 12:15:02 2007
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