Hello,
I am looking for fastest raid 0 storage solution for a workstation. Is
Adaptec 39320 controler + 6 Fujitsu mas 36gb 15000 rpm drives u 320 the
fastest i could get or is there something else, faster? Thanks

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> Hello,
> I am looking for fastest raid 0 storage solution for a workstation. Is
> Adaptec 39320 controler + 6 Fujitsu mas 36gb 15000 rpm drives u 320 the
> fastest i could get or is there something else, faster? Thanks

Fast is a generic term. Be more specific. Fast RAID for a
database, web server or a streaming application requires a
different selection criteria.

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U comp.periphs.scsi .::SuperBLUE::. <superblue@dontusefakkevip.hr> prica:
> I am looking for fastest raid 0 storage solution for a workstation. Is
> Adaptec 39320 controler + 6 Fujitsu mas 36gb 15000 rpm drives u 320 the
> fastest i could get or is there something else, faster? Thanks

39320 is not a RAID controller... You could possibly use software RAID0
solution, but I don't recommend it... Here is a list of Adaptec's RAID
controllers:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/su...ge=supportindex

Also check LSI and ICP Vortex...


Second... What kind of speed you need? Fast read, write, seek?


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Don't be stupid. hardware RAID is of no benefit on the desktop, especially
from Adaptec.

If you do not have PCI-X, the fastest (STR) available is RAID 0 on Intel's
i9XX and nForce4 SATA2.

If you want a fast workstation, get a 15K SCSI OS drive, and IDE for data.

<calypso@fly.srk.fer.hr.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> 39320 is not a RAID controller... You could possibly use software RAID0
> solution, but I don't recommend it... Here is a list of Adaptec's RAID
> controllers:
>
>
[url]http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/suppbyproduct.jsp?sess=no&language=E[/url
]
nglish+US&cat=%2FTechnology%2FRAID&fromPage=supportindex
>

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You could possibly use software RAID0
> solution, but I don't recommend it...

Why not? Will it make a serious impact on performance of a dual opteron.

> Second... What kind of speed you need? Fast read, write, seek?

Fastest possible - read, write, seek.

http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/product...specifications.
html

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> Fast is a generic term. Be more specific. Fast RAID for a
> database, web server or a streaming application requires a
> different selection criteria.

This workstation is used for various 35mm film and hdtv video production
effects.

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> 39320 is not a RAID controller...
http://www.geizhals.at/eu/?cat=sccraid&sort=p

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.::SuperBLUE::. wrote:

> You could possibly use software RAID0 
>
> Why not? Will it make a serious impact on performance of a dual opteron.
> 
>
> Fastest possible - read, write, seek.
>
>
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/product...specifications.
> html

If your only criterion is "the fastest possible" then you want a RAM based
device, not disk.

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.::SuperBLUE::. <superblue@dontusefakkevip.hr> wrote:

> This workstation is used for various 35mm film and hdtv video production
> effects.

So you need fast reads and writes on large files, but not extremely fast
access. For this application, the high (15k) rpm drives you mentioned
won't provide much additional benefit to offset their high cost.

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My experiments with Win2003 server backed by EMC CX-700 (2Gbit
fibre-channel) show that best throughput was achieved with hardware RAID-10
sets striped in software so that multiple LUNs were visible to the OS. With
a 2Tb drive created from five 400Gb RAID-10 sets each consisting of six
133Gb drives, throughput was several hundred percent better than with the
RAID-10 all done in hardware and only presenting a single LUN to the OS.
OTOH, with Win2000 as the OS the software striping gave no appreciable
advantage over the hardware striping.

My testing was done with the MS Loadsim 2003 stress test tool for simulating
a production Exchange environment.

Nick

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