unhappy_mage
[H]ard|DCer of the Month - October 2005
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Continuation from here, which I felt I'd disrupted enough. Anyone's welcome to give input.
Summary to this point: I'm looking into doing some testing of disk performance, and I want to put together a reputable platform to do so from. I'm not planning on doing tests under Windows, so "Alternative OS" support is important. I'm willing to buy a new card, and possibly a new system, to achieve this goal.
Now, to continue replying to the last post:
Summary to this point: I'm looking into doing some testing of disk performance, and I want to put together a reputable platform to do so from. I'm not planning on doing tests under Windows, so "Alternative OS" support is important. I'm willing to buy a new card, and possibly a new system, to achieve this goal.
Now, to continue replying to the last post:
Yeah, 2.2 is a bit old for my tastes. "Other OS" it is.The retards fucked it up back in 2.2, LSI put out a proper one somewhere in 2.4, then they promptly fucked it up again. I mean come on, they can't even get TCP checksum on the EEPro's right - STILL! It has to do with higher level kernel functions that are horrifically broken to put it mildly.
Wow, really?! That's great! However, some people ask for definitive proof of this, and since everyone "in the know" about scsi know this so clearly, explaining it to everyone else is a waste of time. That's my theory, anyways, since there are no public conclusive tests of sata versus scsi on desktop or server apps that I've seen.I'll be happy to save you cash and shatter their idiotic dreams for free. Raptor performing on par with a 15K MAX, HA HA HA! Yeah, also, President Bush resigned, Osama Bin Laden apologized for the WTC, and THG published a factual review.
Any opinions on the Marvell 6081s? I've got one of those, they're on the HCL for Sun, and Sun uses 6 of them in the 4500 (which is a pretty neat-looking machine - but the bus layout scares me, that many 8132s just isn't right ), so they can't be *that* bad. I know the Linux support for them is shaky at best, though - DMA problems. No great surprise.However.. I haven't done enough testing with the SATA MegaRAIDs and Solaris. I can't recommend it. They're not on the HCL. If it's not on the HCL yet, it's not safe. So, yeah, welcome to the land of you're just boned. *sigh*
I figured so. I've got a dual P3 with PCI-X I'll probably use for the initial tests, then one of these days it's an H8DCE for me. The newer Opterons are neat and all, but I haven't seen any of the 2000 series that strike my fancy. Supermicro's boards all seem to have NEC PCI-X chipsets or not enough pci express lanes. Any recommendations?I don't screw around with bus. Contention will destroy validity. So unless you've already got some very big boxes laying around, start planning on laying out somewhere around $2-3K for a test platform. At least.
Why am I not surprised by that?(which specifically excludes everything from Tyan.)