Thank you both for the comments. This helps. > > From: Heinz Sporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 01:42:20 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > CC: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID > > Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2005, 00:59 -0400 schrieb Ron Bickers: > > On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > > > 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop > > > system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD > > > 1.6 with 2 gig > > > of memory > > > > I'm running several Seagate 200GB drives with the SATA controllers on the > > Intel 915G boards I have. The driver is included with the kernel > > (ata_piix) > > and I've had no problems with it. Linux treats it as a SCSI device. If > > you're buying a separate card, you might want to check around for > > availability and stability of the drivers first. > > It seems as if I'm having pretty much the same layout in several of my > servers. Running Software Raid 1 on 200GB Seagate SATA drives. Worked > out of the box with vanilla sources 2.6.12.5. I recommend using mdadm to > build the array instead of using the older RAID tools described in the > Gentoo Wiki. > > > > > In my experience, audio recording has relatively low hardware requirements > > for today's machines, unless you're trying to do some heaving > > encoding/compressing on-the-fly. > > > > > 2. If I went with SATA how much does using software RAID and LVM hurt me? > > > > That depends on what you mean by RAID (0, 1, 5, etc.) and what you want out > > of it. I have two 200GB SATA drives setup with LVM's striping and the read > > and write throughput is considerably faster (benchmarked and perceived) > > than > > with one drive. > > > > > 3. Anything else I should know? > > > > Your choice of file system may make as much of a difference as anything. > > Consider running tests if you aren't married to one already. > > > > -- > > Ron > -- > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > Heinz Sporn > > SPORN it-freelancing > > Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.sporn-it.com > Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 > A-4540 Bad Hall > Austria / Europe > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
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