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[stormrosson]

hey gang, as some of u may know, the nefarious M.Oreilly and myself have been converted to sas (serial attached scsi) storage. MO asked if I would post a few desk shots of 2 popular hdd benchmarks we use ,atto and hd-tach. So here are a couple:
these are with 2x 73 gB 10,025 rpm 2.5" sas drives...

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[m.oreilly]

wow sweet scores mane i gotta reformat and try that there 128k stripe!

[stormrosson]

yeah I'm likin it that li'l dip in hd-tach isn't there normally when I format and reboot I'm gettin a smooth 108.5-9 average read now I gotta go to 2cpu and try to remember my username and pw......what a maroon

Edited by stormrosson, 20 March 2008 - 07:00 PM.

[m.oreilly]

stormrosson, on Mar 20 2008, 12:00 PM, said:

yeah I'm likin it that li'l dip in hd-tach isn't there normally when I format and reboot I'm gettin a smooth 108.5-9 average read now I gotta go to 2cpu and try to remember my username and pw......what a maroon

[stormrosson]

MO just a shout to let u know that the tape on pcie pins 5 and 6 works perfectly, now I boot and winders shows all 4 gigs in dual channel....I'm happier than a pig in s**t , thx for all your help buddy

[m.oreilly]

stormrosson, on Mar 20 2008, 01:01 PM, said:

MO just a shout to let u know that the tape on pcie pins 5 and 6 works perfectly, now I boot and winders shows all 4 gigs in dual channel....I'm happier than a pig in s**t , thx for all your help buddy

[BlueScreenOfDeath]

Arent SAS drives expensive? LOL

[stormrosson]

a little but now that the little memory glitch with my mobo is fixed, I told myself........"self, go buy 2 more drives".....so self did hehehehehe

[m.oreilly]

them backplanes come in mighty handy bra...

[stormrosson]

yeah prolly but I don't need the hot-swap stuff and, handy little dwarf that I be, I fab'd up a very cool 2.5" drive bay for 4 drives out of alum angle and channel etc and a few pop-rivets and voila a cool little drive cage, screwless,acts as a hs and cost about 12$ in stuff. I'll take a snap or 2 and up'm , I'm quite proud of it

Edited by stormrosson, 20 March 2008 - 09:28 PM.

[m.oreilly]

stormrosson, on Mar 20 2008, 02:26 PM, said:

yeah prolly but I don't need the hot-swap stuff and, handy little dwarf that I be, I fab'd up a very cool 2.5" drive bay for 4 drives out of alum angle and channel etc and a few pop-rivets and voila a cool little drive cage, screwless,acts as a hs and cost about 12$ in stuff. I'll take a snap or 2 and up'm , I'm quite proud of it

very cool. this i gotta see

[Christopholofigus]

w00t...go guys go!

[m.oreilly]

well, my 'speriment with changing my cluster size (while os installed), came to a tragic end (of course ), so i just redid the partitions under 128k stripe, and am getting better reads/writes (remember, i'm not "cheating" by increasing the pci-e clock speed, like someone we know...though if i could, i would ).

[stormrosson]

freakin crybaby...... but glad u confirmed my conclusion that the 128k stripe seems optimal

[m.oreilly]

might just try normal read to see what happens...