hyperion007
n00b
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- Nov 10, 2010
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Do you recommend Hitachi instead of WD? I have always had good experiences using WD black drives.
I think the 1880 series are a little expensive. I really only need a raid card with one sff-8088 connector to reach my goals. Also, as I understand it, the HP SAS Expander card only supports 600MB/s when using SAS2 disc drives? Or maybe that is not the case for the interconnect between the raid card and the expander card? I will probably use a SAS2 raid card anyway so great, 2400MB/s with a single sff-8088 cable. I am actually not using the network for large file transfers. The raid card goes into my workstation that is then connected with the sff-8088 cable to the HP SAS Expander card in the file server. I will obviously use the server as a NAS as well but only for streaming media etc. For that I only 1gbit ethernet.
What would the performance be (ball park) with 2 sets of 10 drives in raid 50? I think I will actually use 4 sets of 5 drives each in 50 ((5-5-5-5)-0) to up the performance as I don't think I will even be close to 1200MB/s with just 2 sets of 10 drives each. I don't have any experience with raid 5 on this scale so I really don't know.
I think the 1880 series are a little expensive. I really only need a raid card with one sff-8088 connector to reach my goals. Also, as I understand it, the HP SAS Expander card only supports 600MB/s when using SAS2 disc drives? Or maybe that is not the case for the interconnect between the raid card and the expander card? I will probably use a SAS2 raid card anyway so great, 2400MB/s with a single sff-8088 cable. I am actually not using the network for large file transfers. The raid card goes into my workstation that is then connected with the sff-8088 cable to the HP SAS Expander card in the file server. I will obviously use the server as a NAS as well but only for streaming media etc. For that I only 1gbit ethernet.
What would the performance be (ball park) with 2 sets of 10 drives in raid 50? I think I will actually use 4 sets of 5 drives each in 50 ((5-5-5-5)-0) to up the performance as I don't think I will even be close to 1200MB/s with just 2 sets of 10 drives each. I don't have any experience with raid 5 on this scale so I really don't know.