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2 x 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 RAID-1 (Perc 6/i): I guess it's good enough that I'll go with this card. :scratch:

It's a Supermicro P4SCi. It has the most bare bones bios settings I've ever seen in any modern system. I don't think it's Wake on mouse causing the problem (though there isn't a setting for that anyhow). I think it's Wake on Ring (also, no setting for it).

No, I haven't. In the past when I tried it these APC BackUPS Pro 1000's didn't offer any functionality with their software that the included capability in Windows XP didn't. Besides, I'm not sure you can tell the UPS to not send messages when the power fails or sags since that would defeat the...

I should have bought two of these back when they were $149.99 instead of just one.

No, it's a cheapy. It only has RS-232 with their bastardized pinout. Right now I'm leaning toward getting a APC SmartUPS with USB like I did for my main server.

Probably because it's fast at 10FPS shooting.

1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 (Perc 6/i) #2: I'm testing a RAID-1 array on the Perc 6/i now. :bomb:

Well I figured this one out. The APC BackUPS Pro 1100 that powers the backup server also has a RS-232 / Serial connection to the PC. Whatever signal / message the UPS sends during a brownout or power glitch to the machine on the serial port causes the system to turn on. If WoL is disabled in...

1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 (Perc 6/i) #1: Stranger still... The Perc 6/i has great write performance, but the Read performance is a little odd. There's nothing like consistency. :lol:

1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 (ICH9R) #2:

I misread his post. I though he asked about SATA drives, not PATA.

They're the same as the desktop drives on the back. The same cables work.

Not sure... Clearly whatever the Perc 5/i does to accelerate small block Read / Write doesn't fully agree with the 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11, but it does with the 750GB 7200RPM Samsungs. A 4x boost in small block performance is nothing to sneeze at.

They're very stable, but I wouldn't hold your breath for there being a pile of BIOS options for tweaking or overclocking. It'll be like an Intel board very bare bones in the BIOS.

1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 (ICH9R): The drive is much faster on the Perc 5/i (nearly 4x) with small blocks read / writes than the ICH9R. But, the ICH9R doesn't have the fluctuating results at higher block sizes. It seems the Perc 5/i is grouping reads and writes for a speed boost. Not sure why...

Just don't plan having any options in the BIOS. :p

You're up to 10 drives? I thought you were playing with 6 drives?

So, I created a 2 x 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 RAID-1 array on the Dell Perc 5/i in my desktop. I benchmarked it with my IOmeter ATTO imitation clone pattern and got the following odd results. 2 x 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 RAID-1: I was expecting something more like this. 2 x 750GB Samsung 7200RPM...

I think it's time for a new thread... The ICH9R gives very different results.

Drive #2: So, they both deliver this quirky performance. :confused:

I'm not entirely sure what to think of it since ATTO is basically worthless.

Here's a single 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 on the Perc 5/i: That is not at all what I would expect. I'm testing the other right now and will test them on the ICH9R later today when I get home.

What raid level is that?

I wouldn't... The card doesn't appear to speed up RAID-1 reads (see the results from my 750x2 RAID-1 array test). Well, I'm only 2/3rds of the way through the IOmeter run on a single drive "array", but the single drive seems to be matching the RAID-1 performance. I will have to test the other...

I ran it again, and basically got the same results. :( Now I'm running a single drive "array" to see what happens.

Well this isn't what I was expecting. :bleh: I'm going to run it again just to make sure.

I wasn't really intending to post that as a comparison. It's just the latest benchmark I got. I need to IOmeter the Seagate 1.5TB x 2 RAID-1 array I made today.

Here's my 7200RPM Samsung 750GB (3 x 250GB platter) x 2 RAID-1 array on a Perc 5/i in my Desktop.

Here, I put your embarrassment into a graph for you. :bstd:

Nice... :p

Wow, your writes are slow. Are you using Write Back or Write Through?

For my HTPC I am. I run a fanless Ninja in it. I only have the rear fan though. My desktop is now in a Thermaltake Element S (the free with Intel SSD case from Newegg).

Doesn't it use two 40mm fans?

:skepo: You mean you can't remote desktop in and fire up IOmeter? :scratch:

Disabling the fan is a recipe for having your drives melt down.

I think you're overly paranoid. :errr: I was able to move a RAID-1 array from my motherboard's ICH9R controller to a Perc 5/i today and maintain the data (though I wasn't interested in doing so).

So, what are the results?

I got mine in today. I also swapped my system into the new case. The fans that come with it are too noisy for my tastes with the exception of the very large fan at the top. I put two 120mm Scythe's in the front and have the 140mm in the back turned unplugged. I will probably pull it out...

I was going to recommend Velcro. As long as he's not worried about it being quiet. :poke:

I'd get a more powerful CPU. You can probably get really close to saturating a dual core Atom with gigabit traffic. I can use over 50% of a E5200 it I'm hammering on it with iperf using the on-board Realtek NiC.

See the utility in the first post. :owneddnce:

I'm not sure if there's any difference between RAID and AHCI in terms of hot swapping capability. However, Hot swapping will never work under IDE mode.

Should work. You'll need to have the BIOS set to AHCI or AHCI / RAID in order to get hotswapping to work. You will need the utility mentioned in the OP to stop the drives. In my systems ESATA drives on the ICH9R / ICH10R aren't offered for ejection with the native Windows eject tray icon...

I have more than two identical Dell Perc 6/i controller cards all with the same FW. I didn't go so far as to move the array from one to the other and try it, but I'm confident it will work. I did try that with the two Dell Perc 5/i cards and my previous 6 drive RAID-5 array. It moved between...

What a surprise. You manage to have a problem with one of the most stand up people on CPF. Everyone else raves about the guy, and you're a whiner. He must have insulted Apple.

I have spare controllers, so I wouldn't be too smug. :p

Well, what do you want to do with it? I like the Quark AA^2 myself as a general purpose flashlight.

Well the Thermaltake case came yesterday, and the Intel 80GB G2 SSD and Icy Dock adapter came today. I'm not sure if I will get a chance to do anything with it until the weekend though. :(

Are you looking for a PCI-X 8 port SATA raid card?

No experience, but it's not a RAID card.