From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 20 23:08:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 676CD1065670 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 23:08:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dean@fragfest.com.au) Received: from togusa.fragfest.com.au (togusa.fragfest.com.au [203.98.91.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A8F58FC1A for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 23:08:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dean@fragfest.com.au) Received: from optimus.optusnet.com.au ([203.10.68.27]) by togusa.fragfest.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M6utJ-0006Bj-Jd; Thu, 21 May 2009 09:08:06 +1000 Message-ID: <4A148D5B.1070808@fragfest.com.au> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 09:08:11 +1000 From: Dean Hamstead User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary D. Margiotta" References: <4A14885B.7000206@tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <4A14885B.7000206@tbe.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on togusa.fragfest.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) Cc: Ivan Voras , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Highpoint RR1520? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 23:08:10 -0000 its worth benchmarking for yourself and seeing if your 64bit powerhouse can outperform the raid cpu. most of the time you will see soft raid doign better Dean Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > I have used several of these cards under FreeBSD. They are not hardware > raid cards, they do not have dedicated processors on them. > > However, they work just fine, and you can set the raid up in the card's > bios, and freebsd will recognize the disk as a single unit. However, I > don't bother, I use gmirror, it's all about the same at that point. I > don't remember off the top of my head which driver it uses, but I didn't > need to add anything. > > -Gary > > Ivan Voras wrote: >> hi, >> >> Is the product described at: >> >> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr1520.htm >> >> a "real" (not soft-) RAID? Is it supported by hptrr? (judging by the man >> page and a quick glance at the code, it doesn't look like it is) >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- http://fragfest.com.au