More hardware advice needed: SATAII and PCI-X
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| Sander_Marechal Oct 27, 2007 4:24 PM EDT |
Hello, I am in need of some more hardware advice from you gurus out here (I'm on a hardware spending spree :-) I have a HP ProLiant ML370 G3 server (This one: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/CoreRedirec... [PDF]). It has a bunch of 64-bit, 100 Mhz PCI-X slots. It's running slow on storage, so I was very happy that I got two 500 Gb hard disks for my birthday recently. Well, I haven't actually got them yet. I get to pick them out and order them, while someone else picks up the tab :-) The server doesn't have any SATA slots of course, so I am looking at my options. From reading Wikipedia I gather that 64-bit/100 Mhz PCI-X has a throughput of 768 Mbyte/sec. Enough to host two SATA 3.0 disks which can do about 300 Mbyte/sec max. I plan to use the two 500 Gb disks as a RAID 1 volume. I also vaguely recall someone here saying that Linux's software RAID is better than any software RAID out there, and that it even beats most low-cost hardware-RAID solutions. So, I think I'm in need of a simple 2-port SATA 3.0 PCI-X card. I think. Can anyone tell me if I'm thinking correctly here, before I start spending EUR 300+ ? And can you perhaps recommend a card? Also, what about power? I see that SATA has new power connectors as well. Are there convertors that I can plug in, either on the motherboard, or the PCI-X card? Or convert from IDE power? Thanks in advance! |
| Sander_Marechal Oct 27, 2007 4:43 PM EDT |
Question: I am looking around at hardware and I see lots of 133 Mhz PCI-X cards out there. Are those backwards-compatible? I.e. can they run at 100 Mhz in my server? Or does that vary per manufacturer? |
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