From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 19:48:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009D416A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:48:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@shadowguarddev.com) Received: from glaaki.masonitg.com (glaaki.masonitg.com [66.119.7.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C0D43D1D for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 19:48:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@shadowguarddev.com) Received: from [192.168.0.58] (unknown [24.137.137.84]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by glaaki.masonitg.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E9C8C0C0; Tue, 24 May 2005 14:48:41 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42938518.9070909@shadowguarddev.com> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:48:40 -0500 From: "Aaron C. Meadows" Organization: ShadowGuard Development User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk Strauser References: <429340EC.2080801@shadowguarddev.com> <200505241356.39253.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <200505241356.39253.kirk@strauser.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware RAID Cards.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:48:43 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Kirk Strauser wrote: >On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: > >>My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID, >>would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID >>card? > > >What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring shouldn't use much CPU, for >example, but parity might put a bit of a load on a hard-working system. > >That's a good question, though. Several cards are listed in the hardware >compatibility notes, but they stop short of saying "this card is completely >supported" or "stay away from this one". What cards have people had good >luck with in practice? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCk4UX/mrzqN8FLFURAihgAJwPKj/t2osnnkSCWVr/xBFv9fPM5QCfb0zo 5LDwsu+PlD074x37ZGcXohw= =KLh1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----