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I am planning on two new hard drives, a sata controller, and a gigabit nic for my Arch machine. I want to set it up as a respository for all of my media so I want to have the quckest access to the data. I'm just curious how well Arch can utilize Sata2 drives and was hoping for tips on configuring the drives.
This is what I want to purchase:
Seagate 750G 16M 7200 SATA II
Store ID: hdi-sea-750g-s2
$289x2
Promise SATA300 TX4 Controller
Store ID: io-pro-sata-300
$77
Intel 10/100/1000 PCI Gigabit
Store ID: ntc-int-gig-001
$36
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this has nothing to do with Arch. All depends on on driver for specific controller and libata.
all the above are implemented in the kernel. Arch is using latest kernel 2.6.21 so whatever is available for your controller, Arch will take advantage of.
support fot SATA300 TX4, TCQ, NCQ was introduced in 2005. So I think that it should work pretty well for you, or use manufacturer's driver:
http://www.promise.com/support/download … s=3&go=GO#
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aye, check your chipset is sata II friendly.
Intel sata boards do NQC fine if you use ahci, not ata_piix.
James
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Running a Seagate 500 sata2 quite happily here, along with SCSI, IDE, USB drives.
mobo is a MSI Neo platinum, maybe 6-7 months old.
If your files are big ones, you may consider using XFS (file system) . On the other hand, altho many bitch about NTFS at least you can see it from most systems. Readup on XFS help pages how to optimize settings when you format the drive, blocksize etc.
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