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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2001 23:09:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Alexey Koptsevich <alex@astro.su.se>
To:        Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
Cc:        scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: one array from both channels in Adaptec 3210S?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10110112308160.12138-100000@dioscuri.astro.su.se>
In-Reply-To: <20011011123557.A406@hollin.btc.adaptec.com>

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> Yes it is.  You cannot, however, create and array that spans multiple
> adapters.

That would be too much! :)

> It follows the law of dimishing returns.  Every disk that you add will
> increase performance my a lower factor than the previous.  You also
> have to remember that performace is also based on the PCI bus and
> the CPU on the controller.  If the card is only in a PCI 33MHz/32Bit
> slot, you can only get 132MB/s max (actually much less than that in
> real life).

And what is the throughput of 66MHz/32bit PCI on my Intel L440GX+
motherboard?

> > Also, I guess there are no SCSI 320 RAID controllers?
> 
> Coming soon....

Are there some announcements?

Thanks,
Alex


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