[mythtv-users] NAS mobo

Steve Heistand steve at heistand.org
Thu Aug 21 14:15:09 UTC 2008


On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:06:20 -0400, John Drescher wrote
> > There are a number of MBs out there that have multiple PCIe(x8/x16)
> > slots in them. a number of companies make really nice 8 and 12 and 16 and...
> > sata connection cards. 8 sata connections will max out a x8 pci slot.
> > some of those cards are software raid only some are hardware raid.
> > having 20 drives in a raid5 or raid6 config has got be a huge
> > load on the cpu if its software raid you are going for.
> > lets hope you arent transcoding on this at the same time...
> > Of course the hardware raid cards are about $100/sata connection. :)
> >
> 
> Having 10 drives in raid 6 puts a 7% load max on a 5 year old 2 GHz
> Opteron unless you are resynchronizing the array.
> 

what kind of bandwidth can you get out of 10 drives in raid6?


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