On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >**pci or pci-x. Yes, you might see > > *SOME* loss in speed from a pci interface, but > > let's be honest, there aren't a whole lot of > > users on this list that have the infrastructure to > > use greater than 100MB/sec who are asking this sort > > of question. A PCI bus should have no issues > > pushing that.<br> > > I have an AMD 939 MB w/ Nvidea on the motherboard and 4 500GB SATA II > drives in a RAIDZ. > I have the $20 Syba SATA I PCI card with 4 120GB drives in another RAIDZ. > > I get 550 MB/s on the 1st and 82 MB/s on the 2nd in the local system. > From another, faster system, over Gigabit NFS I get 69MB/s and 35MB/s. > > I'm taking a big hit from the SATA ! PCI card vs the motherboard SATA II it > seems. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > That has FAR, FAR more to do with the drives and crappy card than the interface. I have no issues maxing out a gigE link with a marvell card on a PCI bus. --Tim
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