RE: Re: RAID recommendations?

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well that's still an improvement over the normal PCI's 33MHz, and I
imagine should yield a noticeable improvement in throughput...

Can you remember the model number of the board?

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
> Richard Malcolm-Smith
> Sent: 24 September 2005 11:12
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: RAID recommendations?
>
> Paul Gordon wrote:
> > That definitely mirrors what I have found this week when trying
to
find
> a PCI-X motherboard. - They are as rare as rocking horse doo-doo, and
are
> invariably server boards, and therefore usually either dual CPU, and
worse
> still usually for XEON CPU's.... = all adds up to quite an expensive
> option...
> >
> > I'm therefore more inclined to wait a while until PCIe versions
of
these
> cards become available - I can't imagine this will take very long...
> >
> > Paul G.
>
> I got a relitivly cheap supermicro one about a year ago, its normal P4
but
> the
> 64 bit slots are only 66Mhz.
>
>
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