Mind if I ask where?
Either I haven't been looking very well or the prices just jumped crazy high.
Even the person I bought from went from $290 to $430...
As I said before, the server only has SCSI and they are all populated.
I didn't mention this but it doesn't have PCI-E either. Either of those options would have made this a lot easier. That is why I had to go with a PCI-X card.
Thanks for the advice though. I will try to uninstall the...
Thanks sub.mesa. I was using windows raid with the poor performance I was posting earlier. If I try to stripe it from the controller, it fails. It doesn't let you pick a stripe size, which seems odd to me.
*update*
I tried to format with 64k allocation units just because there wasn't...
I/Os and throughput. It is for serving a database. My company won't let me sell them and buy something else. I pretty much have to make this work.
I would still need a controller regardless. The server only has SCSI and they are all populated. Also, one 160 is barely faster than two 40s...
http://i.imgur.com/gXFHv.jpg
That is just a simple windows array set up in diskpart. It isn't aligned. I tried to create an array using the raid card but every time I benchmarked it, it would kick out/orphan one of the drives and destroy my stripe set.
Alright, here is my situation.
I have...
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