[Gllug] A SATA Raid card worth having?

Fri Jan 27 13:43:55 UTC 2006

"Russell Howe" writes:

>surely the aim is to never saturate the available bandwidth, so you'd
>probably want to allow at least 50MB/s per drive (assuming nice fast 10
>or 15k RPM drives). This limits you to about 6 drives per U320 SCSI
>channel.

Of course, U320 is passÃ© now. State of the art in SCSI is U640,
although that's largely been ignored by the martket in favour of SAS,
which should be significantly faster in time. The limitations of PCI
bandwidth mean that there's little point in heading down that route
without PCI-X or PCIe (which can scale to over 1GB/s)

Tet
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