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  anyone tried striping two G-SATA arrays on PCI-express G5?

  Posted by Keith Salkowski on May 2, 2006 at 7:12 pm

  A sales guy at GTECH told me I could connect two of their G-SATA arrays with a four-port adapter card, stripe the arrays and get increased performance over a single G-SATA array. I understand the theory behind all this, but given that the G-SATA arrays and the adapter cards are brand new for the PCI-Express G5’s, I’m wondering if anyone has yet done this in the real world.

  Gary Adcock replied 20 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Gary Adcock

  May 3, 2006 at 7:01 pm

  [keith salkowski] “A sales guy at GTECH told me I could connect two of their G-SATA arrays with a four-port adapter card, stripe the arrays and get increased performance over a single G-SATA array.”

  That is correct.

  It is no different than doing it on anything else. You should see between 50%-70% increase in throughput
  when adding one additional drive and striping the 2 units together. However adding more than 2 drives to any single bus will not give you any more than about a 75% increase due to the limitations of the data bandwidth during transfers.

  and the same holds true for Firewire also.

  gary adcock
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