Re: Limits of the 965 chipset & 3 PCI-e cards/southbridge? ~774MiB/s peak for read, ~650MiB/s peak for write?

From: David Lethe
Date: Sun Jun 01 2008 - 09:56:27 EST




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From: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subj: Re: Limits of the 965 chipset & 3 PCI-e cards/southbridge? ~774MiB/s peak for read, ~650MiB/s peak for write?
Date: Sun Jun 1, 2008 6:02 am
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> I have 12 enterprise-class seagate 1TiB disks on a 965 desktop board and it
> appears I have hit the limit, if I were able to get the maximum speed of all
> drives, ~70MiB/avg * 12 = 840MiB/s but it seems to stop aound 774 MiB/s
> (currently running badblocks on all drives)..

Small correction, they are 7200.11 Seagate Desktop Drives (ST31000340AS),
not enterprise drives:

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=0732f141e7f43110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148274

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