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FW: Selling on MOBOs
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- Subject: FW: Selling on MOBOs
- From: "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:12:50 -0000
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> My next purchase will be one of these:
>=20
>
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?prodkey=3DASR-210
0S
>=20
> At =A3330 it isn't cheap but two of the Maxtors running in a=20
> RAID0 configuration (disk striping), with 64Mb of SDRAM on=20
> the controller as a cache (!) will be even faster.
I set one of these up with my best mate on his PC a while ago (he does
Oracle development work so hard disc transfer speeds are always his
limiting factor) and yes, they are fast - With two drives we were
getting 54Mbytes a second sustained and he now has four drives on there
which IIRCare turning in about 80Mbytes a second sustained.
One thing to note though is that standard DIMMs don't work in the board
(I'm pretty sure it was this board that he has) and they need to be a
particular type. Adaptec specify a Kingston product number which we were
supplied a generic equivalent of by SMC and which didn't work ... Only
the exact Kingston one did!
One thing that we did find though was that for no tests that we tried
(even for intensive database stuff) did increasing the cache to 128Mb
over the standard 32Mb make any measurable difference in speed or
transfer rate!
Phil
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