On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 13:27 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
I'm putting together a hardware proposal for a new project - I/O rates are paramount, so I'm looking at running e.g. 16 SATA-II drives on a single box. I have opted not to use SAS drives due to price and lack of concurrency in the application. I'm thinking of using two fairly inexpensive Intel SATA (for RAID0) controllers, each with 8 SATA ports, each in a PCIe x8 slot. Before I go and build the prototype, I was just wondering if anyone's had any experience with running so many SATA drives on a single mainboard?
The closest I have is 4 SATA. They are each receiving continuous JPEG2000 image streams. The file system is XFS. I have had no trouble at all. So that is at least one data point for you. Sorry I cannot say anything about 16 disks. I think it must be more a question of what the 16 disks will be doing more than that all are present. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org