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Kingston just released a Sandforce-based drive that has built-in encryption. I would love to see some serious benchmarking on such a drive...
Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6PTLFG43UA
NewEgg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139920
Samsung also has a...
If you could tell me how you want to look at the data, I can tell you the easiest way to process it.
Right up front, you could easily bind the text file to a MS Access database (use the advanced button on the import wizard to skip any fields you don't need) and either pivot it inside MS...
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My Dell M6500 Laptop allows me to run RAID 5 if I use a Mini PCIe third drive like these:
http://www.supertalent.com/products/ssd_category_detail.php?type=Netbook
I would like to see some reviews on the speeds of these drives and comparison of full height vs. half height and different SATA...
Fusion I/O has the option to saturate the PCI-e channel it is attached to rather then dealing with the constraints of SATA. One trade for that proprietary connection is that it cannot be used to boot. I was considering buying a second one so I can set up a RAID0 with 4 drives, a RAID5, a...
I found another problem with my I/O tests is that every controller cheats a little with RAM. HBA's do it with specific RAM, and motherboards do it with system ram. I'm going to have to buy more RAM for my RAID controllers to see how that affects the results.
The ACARD is definitely a better choice. Cheaper, by far, with more options. Here is my quick and dirty review page:
http://www.wideopenwest.com/~dcason6634/Acard.html
And here are some more I found in these forums:
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16255/1...
That review was fun. It illustrates why I was interested in the drive: I want to use it with databases and massive data normalization.
I have a team at work that has just recently purchased a massive i7-based dual qual-core Xeon system that we plan to try a few things with. The first...
I bought some really fast compact flash and the three drive controllers in my server makes my boot time quite long.
You could also:
Hit the pause key during boot and wait for the lights on the ANS-9010 to stop flashing.
Power the drive externally (like I do;I keep it outside and use a power...
I used a 1MB stripe on my Dell Perc 5/i's and each one has 256MB of cache. The Promise ex8350 has 128MB of cache. The Perc does not have a non-raid mode, even with one disk. The promise card does have a JBOD mode for one disk but the performance was about 30% slower than RAID 0 with just one disk.
That is what I tried (trial version) and had trouble with. The 64-bit version worked fine before, I can't get the 32-bit to work now.
That is fantastic. I will check into it. I know I can upgrade my Perc's to 512MB of RAM (and maybe more) but I am not convinced that the cache is the...
I was getting crazy numbers from a Ramdisk. I downloaded a trial version to try it again yesterday but it just wouldn't let me make a drive (I was running a 32-bit OS with 8GB of RAM so maybe it got confused). The last time I tried it was with a 64-bit OS and it worked very well.
Questions...
I noticed that my results were a lot better than your sample, Mr. Idontcare.
Note: I did not run my two iRams through the CrystalDiskMark because they just don't work in the Dell Perc 5/i's as they are SATA I instead of SATA II. I am moving this weekend so I don't think I will have time to...
I bought a pair of Dell Perc 5/i controllers on eBay last month for the purpose of testing the ANS-9010 with a RAID controller dedicated to each SATA port on the ANS-9010. I got around to trying them over the weekend and I confirmed that the controller is the bottleneck: using two controllers...
Another article:
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16255/1
I read the above article but they didn't test with very good hardware (less than decent SATA controller). I bought a pair of Dell Perc 5i cards and upgraded them with the latest LSI MegaRaid 8840E firmware which really made my...
Another article:
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16255/1
I read the above article but they didn't test with very good hardware (less than decent SATA controller). I bought a pair of Dell Perc 5i cards and upgraded them with the latest LSI MegaRaid 8840E firmware which really made my...
Another article:
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/16255/1
I read the article but they didn't test with very good hardware (less than nice RAID controller). I bought a pair of Dell Perc 5i cards and upgraded their firmware with the latest LSI MegaRaid 8840E version which really made them...
I bought four of these paired DDR2 modules to populate the ANS-9010 totaling 16GB: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...&Tpk=F2-6400CL5D-4GBNT
They cost me less than $10/GB.
Contact Vicky Tien at Acard/2SAN: vicky_tien@acard.com
Sales Engineer
Acard Technology Ltd. USA branch office
Tel: (714) 256-9389
Fax: (714) 256-9382
460 W. Lambert Road Suite J
Brea CA 92821 USA
I purchased my items directly from them. They were exceptionally easy to work with. I...
I have to get a compatible video card: my server is running a 6-year-old remote management card (Megarac G2) that doesn't cut the mustard for that software.
In the mean time, enjoy the following complements of Acard:
http://www.acard.com.tw/english/newstabpop.jsp?idno=87
I can tell you...
I bought an ANS-9010:
http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-batcar.jsp#
Prices are listed.
Sample results running both SATA ports in RAID0 against two iRAMS:
http://www.wideopenwest.com/~dcason6634/Acard.html
They are just slightly faster than an iRAM... but they have more slots and use...
I picked up an Acard ANS-9010 and a 9012. They are both pretty neat.
Here is a quick ANS-9010 vs iRam comparison:
http://www.wideopenwest.com/~dcason6634/Acard.html
If anyone is interested in a contact at Acard/2SAN so they can buy their own, please post a reply. The ANS-9010 is...
wmaciv,
My iRam's top-out at around 120 MB/s, too, but it does vary with the SATA controller I attach them to.
The Acard is a bit faster but, again, it depends on what is attached to. In addition, the Acard ANS-9010 seems to perform very poorly in forced SATA I mode (but I am still...
I picked up an Acard ANS-9010 and a 9012. They are both pretty neat.
Here is a quick ANS-9010 vs iRam comparison:
http://www.wideopenwest.com/~dcason6634/Acard.html
If anyone is interested in a contact at Acard/2SAN so they can buy their own, please post a reply. The ANS-9010 is...
For the question:
And, am I correct that i-RAM does NOT work at all without that custom battery
installed, charged and fully operational?
No. The iRAM works just fine without a battery... but if I lose PCI power (i.e. my server is unplugged), I lose the data.
With a pair of the iRAMs...
I have two iRams and one of the two had a battery die... it took about 14 months. It did something really scary... after I noticed it was not working, I pulled the card out and the battery had expanded to nearly 150% of its original size. I was afraid it might explode so I took it to a...
Acard told me that the 9010 would be out in the 4th quarter of this year.
The best thing about these devices, as compared to the iRam (I have two) is that they use DDR2 which is much less expensive than DDR.
9010 is like the iRam box... but it has two SATA interfaces and two sets of memory banks for a maximum of 8 sticks of RAM. Acard may release two varieties of this device but they were not clear about what the differences will be.
9011 is a smaller device, the size of a hard drive. I can't...
Acard sent me another email and said the ANS-9011 will not be available until Q1.
There will be two versions of the ANS-9010:
One with two SATA ports (acting like two drives) with 8 RAM slots.
One with only one SATA port
The pictures I found show the version with two SATA ports.
I...
Acard just sent me an email. They expect to have samples on the ANS-9010 and ANS-9011 in August 2008 and a official release date of September 2008. We will have to wait a few months.
Last week I called Gigabyte in the United States to see if they could help me with a new battery for one of...
Finally! Pictures of the ACARD ANS-9010:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/tra..._en&btnTrUrl=Translate
AND
http://translate.google.com/tr...%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us
The device is like an iRam (or iRam-Box) with DDR2 in a 5.25" drive bay container. It has both a battery for maintaining the data...
I'm looking for ideas. I enjoy solving unusual problems... mostly because it leads me to information that is useful in the future. I am most curious as to why a drive would not be properly recognized by the drive controller.
Here is my situation:
I have an nForce Pro 4 motherboard, the Supermicro H8DCE.
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplu...teron/nForce/H8DCE.cfm
I have a pair of Gigabyte gc-Ramdisks with 4GB of RAM each.
When I plug these directly into the motherboard, the system boots slowly and does not...
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