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InorganicMatter

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A kickass workstation I just put together for the boss:

Intel Badaxe 2
Core 2 E6600
3GB DDR
NVIDIA 7300GS
Intel SAS Controller
4x320GB Seagates
Antec Sonata 2

900GB of hardware-level RAID 5, with the optional batter backup and write-back caching enabled. Can you say "smoking fast?" Boots Windows XP in about four seconds, and disk writes are unbelievably fast thanks to the 256MB of cache on the controller. Just a little something to brag about. :p
 
Around $2k. A benchmark:

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Note the CPU utelization: 4%!!
 
Holy hell. Usually I don't give these bragging threads a second look, but hot damn that's fast.
 
126mb is hardly smoking ffast for a $700 raid card, burst speed means nothing

i was just looking into this card, the SRCSAS18E, but if that is all it can do on a 4 drvie raid 5 seems pretty low...
 
Is this thread old enough for you Guv? :p I get the same performance on the ICH9R with those 10th gen 'cudas in RAID0 (4 drives; 2 drives gets 112MB/s, IIRC).
 
MrGuvernment said:
126mb is hardly smoking ffast for a $700 raid card, burst speed means nothing

i was just looking into this card, the SRCSAS18E, but if that is all it can do on a 4 drvie raid 5 seems pretty low...
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Uhhh, the thread is two years old you know. :p Desktop-grade mechanical drives were fairly slow back then.

We have that card running in a server now. Been working great for 2 years. Please remember: it's a RAID-5 card. Performance is good, but its primary goal is reliability (which it has done well), and low CPU usage (I bet your ICH9 doesn't have near-idle CPU usage when running at full access). :)
 
I know, i brought it up cause i was looking for info on that controller and very few threads came up :(

i was thinking that card in a raid 10 or raid 50 setup with 6 drives....
 
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