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markp1989
July 2nd, 2008, 11:28 PM
I have the following computers.

Desktop:3.2ghz 2gb 80gb and 160gb
Laptop:1.5ghz 1gb 40gb Laptop 2 asus eee pc 4gb
torrentslave/nfs/daap server:1ghz athlon 1gb ram 160gb
Divxbox: 866mhz 128mb 1gb CF

I was thinking of getting a cheap sata card for the torrent slave. and moving the 2 hard drives from my desktop pc to the torrent slave.

Then install ubuntu on a 2gb CF card (root partition read only in squashfs) in the desktop PC, and have the home partition stored on the Torrent slave, being accessed using NFS.

a few questions:
how cheap can i get a PCI SATA (with 2 internal sata ports) card that works out of the box with linux?

will i notice any lag if i have the home partition on a network share (100Mb Wired) I only use the home partiton to store settings , not larger files?



Thanks MarkP1989

LaRoza
July 2nd, 2008, 11:35 PM
how cheap can i get a PCI SATA (with 2 internal sata ports) card that works out of the box with linux?

Well, as cheap as you can find. I don't think you'd have a problem using any of them, but you might want to check out the forum to see.

Lostincyberspace
July 3rd, 2008, 02:03 PM
I got mine for 30.

It is from Manhattan (the company not the city)
http://www.manhattan-products.com/driver-mercury-ataraid.shtml
It is the raid card with the 2 internal ports.

Using it in windows is tricky though so if you dual boot be prepared to wait a while while you get every thing set up..

markp1989
July 3rd, 2008, 07:59 PM
I got mine for 30.

It is from Manhattan (the company not the city)
http://www.manhattan-products.com/driver-mercury-ataraid.shtml
It is the raid card with the 2 internal ports.

Using it in windows is tricky though so if you dual boot be prepared to wait a while while you get every thing set up..

I dont want to set it up using raid, because the drive sizes don't match, if i get one that supports raid, will i be able to use it with out raid?


does any one know if this card will work using linux?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3-Port-SATA-1-Port-IDE-PCI-RAID-Controller-Card-B117_W0QQitemZ230265995791QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item 230265995791&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C65%3A2&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

it has a Via-VT6421A chip, dont know if that will work or not?