[Pc_Support] 3Ware question

[Jason Boxman]

Bryan J. Smith said:
> William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
>> Wouldn't i be facing pci bus saturation with the 2 160 sata in
>> software Raid-1 ?
>
> Not if the SATA channels are connected to a dedicated PCIe x1 channel
> or the HyperTransport itself.
>
> But in all seriousness, the 8006-2 will be fine for 2 drives.  You're
> not going to get much of a performance hit -- just don't put anything
> else on the 32-bit PCI bus you expect to get performance out of.

For software RAID 1 you'd have to send writes down the bus for each drive,
right?