Re: Linux Software RAID5 - ballpark numbers

John-Paul --

You're right, my system has a single PCI bus. As far as I know, the peak
bandwidth is 132MB/s for 32-bit, 32MHz PCI.

As far as I am aware, the only things active at the time of the test were
the FireWire 800 drive and the two SIL3114A controllers. However, the
video adapter is on the same bus (obviously) and therefore must count as an
active unit. Every other unit is inactive.

Considering the fact that I am using two separate adapters on the same PCI
bus, to host the array, would I be better off with a single multi-channel
hardware RAID card, or is my logic flawed?

Thanks for your help,

Rohan Beckles
rohan.beckles@xxxxxxxxxx
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ASUS PC-DL Deluxe
Intel Xeon @ 3.06GHz (dual)
Corsair TwinX-3200PT 2GB
Western Digital 2500SD (dual, RAID1)
eVGA nVidia 6800 Ultra 256MB

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