Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 02:10:02 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is considered "the best supported" RAID controller for 5.x? Message-ID: <20050619020755.R90456@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <200506180943.j5I9hcOF019234@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <200506180943.j5I9hcOF019234@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
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On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello! > >> The subject says it all ... I'm looking a new server, and right now have >> built it around the SRCZCRX PCI-X 128MB, since I've had good luck with the >> Intel RAID controllers with 4.x, and I *really* like the storcon CLI >> utility ... but, with the move to 5.x, I'm wondering if there is something >> else I should be looking at, or is this still a good card to go with? > > IMHO it's the entire product line of ICP Vortex, now owned > by Adaptec. These cards really rock. Battery backed up cache, > RAID 1+0, driver maintained my company's engineers, yet in > the stock FreeBSD kernel, curses based management utility > to repair arrays without reboot, unattended rebuild if > you exchange a broken disk with a brand new one, same > interface to the host for _all_ products including SATA, ... 'k, its the above that I've grown to love with the Intel cards ... do you have a URL for these? Checking Adaptec's site, they don't seem to explicitly list the ICP Vortex stuff ... Also, is there a particular card that I should avoid, in their line up, or are they all good? I'm looking to put this into an Intel SR1400 Server Platform ... the motherboard has onboard U320 SCSI, so I was figuring to go the 0 Channel route ... and the SR1400 is 3x drive bays, so would be going RAID5 for this ... thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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