> Deon Cui <deon.cui <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > So I had a bunch of them lying around. We've bought > a 16x SAS hotswap > > case and I've put in an AMD X4 955 BE with an ASUS > M4A89GTD Pro as > > the mobo. > > > > In the two 16x PCI-E slots I've put in the 1068E > controllers I had > > lying around. Everything is still being put > together and I still > > haven't even installed opensolaris yet but I'll see > if I can get > > you some numbers on the controllers when I am done. > > This is a well-architected config with no bottlenecks > on the PCIe > links to the 890GX northbridge or on the HT link to > the CPU. If you > run 16 concurrent dd if=/dev/rdsk/c?d?t?p0 > of=/dev/zero bs=1024k and > assuming your drives can do ~100MB/s sustained reads > at the > beginning of the platter, you should literally see an > aggregate > throughput of ~1.6GB/s... > > -mrb
thats the kind of stuff wet dreams are made of =] Great post - thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
