From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 13 12:19:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C19B16A407 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:19:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mb_jobs@yahoo.com) Received: from web33413.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33413.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFF0743D5F for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:19:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mb_jobs@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 45248 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Sep 2006 12:19:50 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=CBX/etW7k19/D6gNbVwl1/pi3307E+hYOvT83arfGaGuh/MgTVkLN4ou4rC5YjDnLCRHgzhySovHzYD6s70TzNCu/zV452La7uUy+OY/Oqb2666yDs1EpujPSysMzFf8cpLsIOLtDXIJKFh8lBuRddUmz/T79CGzLKbhqLNzzJo= ; Message-ID: <20060913121950.45246.qmail@web33413.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.213.201.18] by web33413.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:19:50 PDT Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:19:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Bernstein To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: testing RAID perf. & choosing a motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:19:56 -0000 Hi, I know there's been quite some talk on RAID performance. Can someone here please tell me how you specifically test disk perf? Also, I want to buy another motherboard for use for AMD 64 chip that I have - Athlon 64. Currently, I have an ATI MB, it's not the best. Do you think I should get a Tyan - again, this is for an Athlon 64 2GHz. Thanks in advance. Michael CCIE Security 16395 --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low PC-to-Phone call rates.