Re: SATA RAID with Promise TX4 (Was: [opensuse] Recommendation for sata card?)

2007-06-02 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-06-02 05:41, HG wrote: > > thought that what ever it is, it's going to be more than (P)ATA and as > Bonnie++ showed that the RAID was in the same ballpark as a PATA drive > would be, I didn't think that PCI bus would be the limiting factor. You could check the mobo specs online. That's a

Re: SATA RAID with Promise TX4 (Was: [opensuse] Recommendation for sata card?)

2007-06-02 Thread HG
Hi! On 6/2/07, Darryl Gregorash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-06-01 23:23, HG wrote: > > > So, the performance isn't very good. But this is a old computer (PIII > 733, with 512Mb), so maybe the bottleneck is somewhere else. Or what > do you think? Well, it is a PCI card. What's the speed o

Re: SATA RAID with Promise TX4 (Was: [opensuse] Recommendation for sata card?)

2007-06-01 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-06-01 23:23, HG wrote: > > > So, the performance isn't very good. But this is a old computer (PIII > 733, with 512Mb), so maybe the bottleneck is somewhere else. Or what > do you think? Well, it is a PCI card. What's the speed of the PCI bus? That's going to be the limiting factor. --

Re: SATA RAID with Promise TX4 (Was: [opensuse] Recommendation for sata card?)

2007-06-01 Thread HG
Hello all! On 5/27/07, Darryl Gregorash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-05-26 23:36, HG wrote: > I have just ordered a Promise SATA300 TX4plus. It was the only And now it arrived. :-) > page says that: "Summary: No TCQ. Newer cards support NCQ. Full SATA > control including hotplug and PM