Have you done any kind of variations on this configuration to see when
or where the maximum throughput happens? Daniel and I were speculating
about where the 3ware limits are. Specs say 100MB/s per adapter (for
both 6000 and 7000 series), you would probably hit max bandwidth with
2 adapters. The drives themselves are not a limiting factor, unless
you are down to striping across only 2 drives instead of all 8. I take
it you are using the hardware RAID instead of software MD RAID?
> The system is also running an Intel Gigabit Ethernet Card at
> 116-122 MB/S with full network traffic and writing this traffic to
> the 3Ware arrays. All this hardware is running on a Serverworks
> HE chipset with a SuperMicro motherboard and dual 933 Mhz PIII
> processors.
Does this board have multiple PCI busses? Is the GigE card on a
different bus than the 3ware cards?
Cheers, Andreas
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