[mythtv-users] NAS mobo

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 14:08:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:06 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> 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.
>
If it was not clear I am talking about software raid 6 with 10 SATA drives.

John


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