[NTLUG:Discuss] High end PCIe storage/RAID adapters

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:50:16PM -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> > Err PCI-X is your best bet that it... PCIe on the brain
> > at the moment...
> 
> Actually, to make an assumption, I believe you were thinking
> straight.
> 
> PCIe is commodity for mainboards.
> PCI-X is commodity for storage controllers.
> 
> PCI-X is not commodity for mainboards.
> PCIe is not commodity for storage controller.
> 
> Hence the problem -- the commodity mainboard and the
> commodity storage controller don't line-up.
> 

Err, not really... PCIe is commodity for end user desktop single CPU
mainboards.  The type of person willing to shell out the money for a high
performance storage controller is likely running SMP.   PCI-X is not only
common, but almost universal on any SMP boards in the past couple of years.

Justin M. Forbes
Kernel Engineer
rpath, Inc.
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