sata faster? any improvements?

cookiescookies
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Has anyone tried out the old disk benchmark on a new G5? Placebo? Anyone?



http://www.myersdaily.org/joseph/ref...iletest.tar.gz



linked here:



http://forums.appleinsider.com/showt...threadid=29200



Has anyone tried a RAID setup or anything with a new G5? It should be able to meet more of the maximum SATA throughput, especially RAID 0 which gives a lot of speed increase.



Also, does anyone know of a motherboard with specs for the following:



proc: 2 Opteron 246

disk: 4 SATA

raid: integrated RAID level 0, 1, and 5

nic: integrated gbit ethernet



I can't seem to find any that meet every single one of those criteria.

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    You're probably going to have to wait a while on the Opteron board. Most server boards do not have Serial-ATA support, and even if they did, the support would be off the PCI bus and would in turn be subject its bandwidth limitations.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    cookiescookies Posts: 61member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Eugene

    You're probably going to have to wait a while on the Opteron board. Most server boards do not have Serial-ATA support, and even if they did, the support would be off the PCI bus and would in turn be subject its bandwidth limitations.



    Yes, that is what it looks like. Also, I'll have to wait for Seagate (which I am going to use) to introduce a line of larger drive models.



    There is this, anyway, but I'm not really satisfied with it:



    http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/sock...n/overview.htm



    The lazy solution would be for nVidia to make an nForce4, which would add room two more serial ATA and dual Opteron processor. Even if it was $400, it would be SO cheap comparatively.



    By the way, here's a really old "Christmas computer specials" link. It's funny.



    http://www.yale.edu/omnibus/Dec95/mcsc_specials.html
  • Reply 3 of 3
    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    SATA performance should be the same; the bottleneck is still the drives.



    As for a motherboard with built in SATA RAID 5, don't hold your breath. If you're lucky maybe next year Adaptec will come out with zero-channel SATA RAID.
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