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#2 Re: My expedition into AMD64: Note Posted by sneex (63.139.xx.xx) on Tue 20 Nov 2007 at 21:05 Hi Derek I have the 3ware 9xxx-series SATA II RAID card -- it's actually a 9550SX-4LP. I am using four drives (500GB Seagate SATA II 3GBit) with 3 of the disks as RAID 5 with the 4th as a Hot-spare. Instead of 2TB disk space I end up with about 1TB and a live fail-over drive (supposed to be completely hardware controlled in the 3ware RAID card bios...) I have three servers, more or less identical, each has 8GB ram with 2 280s; here is a general breakdown of the specs: Debian 4; 2.6.18-5-amd64 (SMP) Processors 4 Model Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 280 CPU Speed 2.39 GHz Cache Size 1024 KB System Bogomips 19137.72 PCI Devices 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE 00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC 00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC 01:03.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 9550SX SATA-RAID 02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet 02:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet 03:05.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller 03:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL 03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] IDE Devices hda: Slimtype DVDRW SSW-8015S SCSI Devices AMCC 9550SX-4LP DISK (Direct-Access) USB Devices Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64 ohci_hcd OHCI Host Controller Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64 ohci_hcd OHCI Host Controller The actual drive performance has been very similar among the systems and except for a weird BIOS issue I have been very happy overall. -Sx- http://youve-reached-the.endoftheinternet.org/

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