Asus M2NPV-VM RAID and SMP64 feedback
Nuno Magalhães
I'm considering upgrading my box in an either-or scenario.
*) either i buy an AMD Phenom X4 (9650, no TLB issue; socket AM2+ is
compatible with AM2) to replace my Athlon64; or
*) i buy one 500+ GB SATA-2 drive; or two with RAID. I'm considering
Western Digital, two of them with 32Mb cache are roughtly the same
price as an X4.
The questions being: has anyone had experience with the X4 and
Debian(64); and how well is RAID(1?) supported? I believe the
motherboard has hw raid.
TIA,
Nuno Magalhães
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John Jason Jordan
Nuno Magalhães <nunoma...@eu.ipp.pt> dijo:
> *) either i buy an AMD Phenom X4 (9650, no TLB issue; socket AM2+ is
> compatible with AM2) to replace my Athlon64; or
> *) i buy one 500+ GB SATA-2 drive; or two with RAID. I'm considering
> Western Digital, two of them with 32Mb cache are roughtly the same
> price as an X4.
>
> The questions being: has anyone had experience with the X4 and
> Debian(64); and how well is RAID(1?) supported? I believe the
> motherboard has hw raid.
I have one of those motherboards and it is running Ubuntu Intrepid. It
has two 320 GB Western Digital SATA II drives in Linux software RAID
that I set up with mdadm.
I knew the motherboard had hardware RAID on it, but after discussing
with Linux friends and googling on the subject I came to the conclusion
that software RAID was more reliable than any kind of hardware RAID. It
has been running beautifully for some time now.
David Christensen
> I'm considering upgrading my box in an either-or scenario.
> *) either i buy an AMD Phenom X4 (9650, no TLB issue; socket AM2+ is
> compatible with AM2) to replace my Athlon64; or
> *) i buy one 500+ GB SATA-2 drive; or two with RAID. I'm considering
> Western Digital, two of them with 32Mb cache are roughtly the same
> price as an X4.
> The questions being: has anyone had experience with the X4 and Debian
> (64); and how well is RAID(1?) supported? I believe the motherboard
> has hw raid.
I have that board with an Athlon 64 3800+, 1 GB DDR2-800 (dual channel 512MB matched pair), and currently Windows XP Pro SP3. I have installed/ used Debian on it several times (32-bit, IDE only?). I've thought about using the hardware RAID, but haven't tried it yet.
Be sure to pick a CPU that's supported:
http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=HGTVnGv5nGahCYgK&content=specifications
STFW for Linux driver support:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.11.html
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/NVIDIA/6100-430
It looks like it might work. To find out for sure, get your hands on two (or four) SATA drives and try it. You might need a driver floppy/CD if you're installing onto hardware RAID. (I put my O/S on a single drive so that it's easy to backup/ restore the drive image.)
I've done Linux software RAID and it works, but hardware RAID should have less impact on the CPU. I'd be interested to see some benchmarks if/when you get it working.
What are you trying to accomplish? Server? Workstation? What software? What users? Why RAID?
David
Nuno Magalhães
> What are you trying to accomplish? Server? Workstation? What software? What users? Why RAID?
Desktop pc + homeserver, although i'm reading up on virtualization
before i go into the homeserver part. Why RAID... why not...? Mostly
to experiment, if/when i fill up one disk's capacity i'll just reRAID
and thus double the capacity. 'Till then i'll get some fault
tolerance.
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David Christensen
> Mostly to experiment,
I set up hardware RAID striping today using one 300 GB SATA II NCQ drive, one SATA II NCQ 320 GB drive, Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), and the Asus driver raid-MakeDisk_XP-8.24.zip. Sandra 1599 benchmarked read access at 117 MB/s; write access was similar.
HTH,
David