Deon Cui <deon.cui <at> gmail.com> writes: > > So I had a bunch of them lying around. We've bought a 16x SAS hotswap > case and I've put in an AMD X4 955 BE with an ASUS M4A89GTD Pro as > the mobo. > > In the two 16x PCI-E slots I've put in the 1068E controllers I had > lying around. Everything is still being put together and I still > haven't even installed opensolaris yet but I'll see if I can get > you some numbers on the controllers when I am done.
This is a well-architected config with no bottlenecks on the PCIe links to the 890GX northbridge or on the HT link to the CPU. If you run 16 concurrent dd if=/dev/rdsk/c?d?t?p0 of=/dev/zero bs=1024k and assuming your drives can do ~100MB/s sustained reads at the beginning of the platter, you should literally see an aggregate throughput of ~1.6GB/s... -mrb _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
