[Pc_Support] 3Ware question

[William Warren]

AFAIK that's correct.

Jason Boxman wrote:
> 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?
> 
> 
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