From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 24 05:46:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C47106566B for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:46:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237EC8FC12 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:46:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1Mqh9c-000Naj-6F; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:46:08 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Charles Sprickman In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Charles Sprickman message dated "Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:12:42 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:46:08 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell/LSI RAID controllers X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:46:10 -0000 > Hello all, > > I'm considering a Dell, specifically the Poweredge 2970, and I'm not > finding much info on their site about the various raid controller options > - there don't seem to be any actual specs. > > Anyone here familiar with the various models (PERC 5i, PERC 6I, SAS 6/iR) > and what FBSD driver each one uses? All are within my price range. I > assume all can handle SATA as well as SAS, correct? Is performance in the > ballpark of a $500 3Ware or Areca card? > > Thanks, > > Charles We have a couple of them, no complains. The raid is doing fine, though megacli is too primitive. We are running raid 5 and zfs on top and the throughput is comparable to our NetAPP filer (without all the bells and whistles). Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #33: Thu Jul 2 16:11:01 IDT 2009 danny@sunfire:/r+d/obj/sunfire/r+d/7/sys/HUJI module_register: module pci/igb already exists! Module pci/igb failed to register: 17 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz (2329.84-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x10676 Stepping = 6 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0xce3bd AMD Features=0x20100800 AMD Features2=0x1 TSC: P-state invariant Cores per package: 4 usable memory = 8568651776 (8171 MB) avail memory = 8267067392 (7884 MB) ACPI APIC Table: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs ... mfi0: port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xfc980000-0xfc9bffff,0xfc940000-0xf c97ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 mfi0: [ITHREAD] pcib8: at device 4.0 on pci0 pci10: on pcib8 mfi1: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xfc780000-0xfc7bffff,0xfc740000-0xf c77ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci10 mfi1: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 3.00 ... danny