Re: [PERFORM] availability of SATA vendors

2006-11-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> > Don't count out LSI either. They make a great SATA controller based off > > their very well respected SCSI controller. > > Interesting. Does it perform as well as the ARECAs I don't know if it performs as well as the ARECAs but I can say, I have never had a complaint. > and how much BBU c

Re: [PERFORM] availability of SATA vendors

2006-11-21 Thread Jeff Frost
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote: ASAcomputers has been the most helpful of all the vendors so far, so thanks for point me at them. I know you've been posting results with the Areca and 3ware controllers, do you have a preference for one over the other? It seems that you can only g

Re: [PERFORM] availability of SATA vendors

2006-11-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> ASAcomputers has been the most helpful of all the vendors so far, so thanks > for point me at them. I know you've been posting results with the Areca and > 3ware controllers, do you have a preference for one over the other? It seems > that you can only get 256MB cache with the 3ware 9550SX

[PERFORM] Priority to a mission critical transaction

2006-11-21 Thread Carlos H. Reimer
Hi, We have an application that is mission critical, normally very fast, but when an I/O or CPU bound transaction appears, the mission critical application suffers. Is there a way go give some kind of priority to this kind of application? Reimer

Re: [PERFORM] availability of SATA vendors

2006-11-21 Thread Jeff Frost
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006, Luke Lonergan wrote: Currently, I'm looking at Penguin, HP and Sun (though Sun's store isn't working for me at the moment). Maybe I just need to order a Penguin and then buy the controller separately, but was hoping to get support from a single entity. Rackable or Asacomp