From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nagilum Subject: Re: Adding more drives/saturating the bandwidth Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:28:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20090330182801.24395xahlmpcutwc@cakebox.home> References: <440826.81462.qm@web51312.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <87eiwf81e8.fsf@frosties.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87eiwf81e8.fsf@frosties.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Goswin von Brederlow Cc: Jon@eHardcastle.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids ----- Message from goswin-v-b@web.de --------- > Jon Hardcastle writes: > >> Hey guys, How do you know if your machine can handle adding some >> more drives to it? How can you check that there is enough BUS IO to >> handle extra sata cards and also that the machine is powerful >> enough to support say an 8 drive raid 5... Maybe hdparm could abused for that? Reporting the disk cache transfer rates for one or two disks at the same time? ----- End message from goswin-v-b@web.de ----- ======================================================================== # _ __ _ __ http://www.nagilum.org/ \n icq://69646724 # # / |/ /__ ____ _(_) /_ ____ _ nagilum@nagilum.org \n +491776461165 # # / / _ `/ _ `/ / / // / ' \ Amiga (68k/PPC): AOS/NetBSD/Linux # # /_/|_/\_,_/\_, /_/_/\_,_/_/_/_/ Mac (PPC): MacOS-X / NetBSD /Linux # # /___/ x86: FreeBSD/Linux/Solaris/Win2k ARM9: EPOC EV6 # ======================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------- cakebox.homeunix.net - all the machine one needs..