18 Apr
2007
18 Apr
'07
11:25 p.m.
A while back I bought a SiI3112 PCI SATA card and hooked four 300gig
hard drives to it - worked fine. Later on, my roommate bought some
400gig hard drives, and we had major trouble with them - the drives
would appear locked up a few gigs into a big file transfer. We ended
up using them in a windows box, where they worked fine.
Now I'm in the market for a brand new computer, that I'd like to throw
some 500gig sata drives in. Has anyone had any experience using
really big drives like that with onboard sata controllers? If so,
what brand/chipset drive/motherboards are you using? (feel free to
reply privately if you think this will degenerate into advertisements)
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18 Apr
18 Apr
11:35 p.m.
You should certainly look for a chipset that's AHCI compliant: you'll
get tagged commands (like SCSI) for free with a supported drive.
You'll likely find that the controller will be better supported too.
On 4/18/07, Dan Easley <daneasley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A while back I bought a SiI3112 PCI SATA card and
hooked four 300gig
hard drives to it - worked fine. Later on, my roommate bought some
400gig hard drives, and we had major trouble with them - the drives
would appear locked up a few gigs into a big file transfer. We ended
up using them in a windows box, where they worked fine.
Now I'm in the market for a brand new computer, that I'd like to throw
some 500gig sata drives in. Has anyone had any experience using
really big drives like that with onboard sata controllers? If so,
what brand/chipset drive/motherboards are you using? (feel free to
reply privately if you think this will degenerate into advertisements)
--
daneasley(a)gmail.com
dan(a)towndowner.com dan(a)burntpossum.com
http://towndowner.com http://burntpossum.com
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19 Apr
19 Apr
10:43 a.m.
Hi Dan,
I have had good luck with the Western Digital SE 16 500GB drives. I
think the model number is WD5000AAKS or something similar. They are
very quiet for a large drive, and I haven't had any issues.
I have used them on two computers. The first motherboard was an Abit
AV8 with a VIA K8T800 Pro/VT8237 chipset (now discontinued). The
current board is an Asus P5W DH Deluxe with an Intel P975X and ICH7R
chipsets. This board also has an additional JMicron raid controller but
I haven't touched it.
Alan
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From: Dan Easley <daneasley(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:27 pm
Subject: [LAU] serial ata
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A while back I bought a SiI3112 PCI SATA card and
hooked four 300gig
hard drives to it - worked fine. Later on, my roommate bought some
400gig hard drives, and we had major trouble with them - the drives
would appear locked up a few gigs into a big file transfer. We ended
up using them in a windows box, where they worked fine.
Now I'm in the market for a brand new computer, that I'd like to throw
some 500gig sata drives in. Has anyone had any experience using
really big drives like that with onboard sata controllers? If so,
what brand/chipset drive/motherboards are you using? (feel free to
reply privately if you think this will degenerate into advertisements)
--
daneasley(a)gmail.com
dan(a)towndowner.com dan(a)burntpossum.com
http://towndowner.com http://burntpossum.com
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22 Apr
22 Apr
6:03 a.m.
Dan Easley wrote:
Now I'm in the market for a brand new computer, that I'd like to throw
some 500gig sata drives in. Has anyone had any experience using
really big drives like that with onboard sata controllers? If so,
what brand/chipset drive/motherboards are you using? (feel free to
reply privately if you think this will degenerate into advertisements)
I've a big pile of servers like this, with more to come:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856152013
Using 250GB and 500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives. Solid as a rock.
Warning: on-board RAID sucks with most motherboards. It's not really
RAID, it's called "fake RAID" (works on Windows with some special drivers).
If you really want to do hardware RAID, buy a card (see below).
I did some serious data mining on a couple of them, with a big MySQL 5
database and software RAID (mirroring). The thing moves pretty fast. Now
I put 3ware 9650SE SATA PCI Express RAID cards in a couple servers and
will rebuild the database in a single-master replication schema. Once I
get the battery backup I will enable the write cache. I expect to see a
performance increase with that.
I've two 500GB drives each server in mirror RAID just for the database.
I even played with 750GB drives on a slightly older architecture, I
think it's the GT20 instead of GT24, worked pretty well.
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