On Aug 27, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Which chip is on the motherboard doing that and how many disks can it >> host? > > We shall probably use a few of the MegaRAID 9280 controllers in > passthrough mode. These are easily capable of handling 2 or 3 GB/s. >
With a few cards in it will be 2GB/s for readspeed. Which isn't bad. With just 1 at the benchmark it achieves with 16 SSD's the 3GB/s readspeed though. Which is pretty impressive. The problem of course is the price of the drives there, 16 SSD's, if you want to store something on them that is, that's not cheap :) Cheap on ebay now are 36GB and 73GB U320 disks, yet i didn't see a cheap raid controller that can have a ton of them AND get to 2GB/s or so. My struggle is to get to a 60 TB raid array though, though seems i have to wait a few years for that :) >> >> On Aug 27, 2012, at 3:55 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> >>>> So my simple question would be: is this better with the built in >>>> raid >>>> controllers that most motherboards have as they can use >>>> the fast 2.5Ghz Xeon cpu's? >>> >>> Im not going to be doing any hardware RAID. ZFS does everything in >>> software. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin >> Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
