I am thinking of the Norco 16/20 hotswap and a 2x operton QC CPU m/b but wasnt sure what a solid performing m/b would be that will work well with the LSI? Any thoughts?
Thanks my hands are now itching for this project to be completed :-) Sam. On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Ramon Hofer <ramonho...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 04:52 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 7/22/2012 10:17 AM, Ramon Hofer wrote: >> >> > But if you multiply the price of five Netgear NV+ (which each holds four >> > disks) ~ CHF 300.-- each then this isn't what I'd call cheap. >> >> And even if your self built (take lots of pride in that achievement BTW) >> Norco solution is slightly more expensive, you have a large number of >> advantages, not least of which is increased performance. You can also >> have all your files under one share/mapping where that would be 5 shares >> using the ready made NAS boxen. And you intentionally built it leaving >> some performance on the table, for increased flexibility WRT expansion >> with one filesystem tree. >> >> You're getting ~60MB/s server <> laptop now (which is pretty nice for a >> laptop mechanical drive). Drop an SSD into the laptop and you should be >> seeing closer to 90-100MB/s, assuming you're cabled with GbE and the >> NICs on both ends are decent. >> >> > And with the speed and possibilities it gives me I consider my solution >> > better than what I could get from a ready to use NAS. >> >> Amen. ;) >> >> Just imagine what it would do if you started from scratch with 20 of the >> Black drives in md/RAID6 w/a 32K chunk, and XFS tuned to the stripe. >> You'd easily hit 1GB/s streaming reads, with streaming writes probably >> >500MB/s. Depends on your CPU. I forgot which one is in the Asus board. > > You're absolutely right what the pride concerns :-) > And as well the cost. But I could use the old mobo, CPU (i3 550) so this > looks a bit better for the Norco solution. > > Btw: I'm still waiting for this damping mats :-/ > Can only take some more weeks... > > > Cheers > Ramon > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caj_azgyaw4legbq5xiu6yn8dtepqe75n+ytog4iw7n2wndm...@mail.gmail.com
