Too much for PCI bus?

[superHARD]

I have a Quad core Intel Q6600 so I have enough processing power, but will:

2 analog pci tuner cards
1 pci 64bit Raid 5 card with a 10TB array on it (that is plugged into a 32bit PCI slot)
1 USB dual analog TV tuner

I can't find a 1x PCI express 6 port raid card...and my board does not have a 4x pci express

So will recording 3 shows at once, and moving huge files to the raid array be possible? Or will it make me want to pull the little hair I have left, out?

 

[Blain]

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[superHARD]

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This is related...See in the forum name it has "storage" this is directly related to bandwidth for storage.

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[pjkenned]

I can't find a 1x PCI express 6 port raid card...and my board does not have a 4x pci express

The way I think about it is that any modern drive is 60MB/s-120MB/s sequential read depending on where you are on the disk. PCI is limited to 133MB/s, which is fine for single port GigE, not so good for connecting multiple hard drives. Plugging a PCI-X card in a PCI slot limits performance to PCI speeds.

Frankly, if you have a 10TB raid 5 array, you may be better off finding a way to get an x4 or x8 card, especially for local storage. I was transferring files from the old WHS to the new one this weekend, and just used 1x GigE link. Still got over 100MB/s, but I'm fairly sure it took like a day when I did a 6TB shared folder.

Being able to record multiple shows will depend on what resolution the shows are going to be at. HD (1080) x3 is probably going to be a bit more scary than SD x3.

 

[superHARD]

I found out that if you clip the back off the 1x express slot, you can fit and make work a 4x or 8x, or even a 16x raid card...so I think that's what I'm going to do wish me luck

 

[sub.mesa]

You have 10TB of storage and decided you want to use PCI to interface all that? I'm at a loss of words; such a waste of nice hardware. PCI and RAID hate eachother, for the simple reason that PCI is a shared-access bus and RAID uses parallel operation to achieve performance increase; that doesn't work with shared-access buses; the data has to wait for PCI bus. The 133MB/s bandwidth of PCI means NOTHING. You should look at latencies and also PCI interrupt usage can be much higher than PCI-express. I strongly urge you to reconsider not using PCI anymore, for anything. PCI should be left abandoned, and preferably you should buy motherboard without any PCI but only PCI-express, to be free of any legacy I/O.

 

[Emulex]

why don't you stuff a gigabit ethernet port in the pci express x1
and use silicondust HDHOMERUN and record your data off ethernet and push through to iscsi (mpio?) san. freenas/openfiler come to mind.

or just buy a nicer motherboard

 

[superHARD]

Looked at mobo's, the only ones I could find with 2 16x express and 3 pci uses ddr3...so I'd need ram and a mobo...

I don't want HD shows recorded. So I think just getting a 4x express card is the easiest solution. Even moving at 1x pci express it will be fast enough. I'm just wanting good speeds, not amazing, but for sure not crawling speeds.