From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 19:42:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9108116A41F for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:42:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from mrelay3.uni-hannover.de (mrelay3.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC06D43D46 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:42:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (www.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.2]) by mrelay3.uni-hannover.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k2BJg35i000491 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:42:04 +0100 (MET) Received: by www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (Postfix, from userid 846) id D465CF5; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:41:58 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:41:58 +0100 From: Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060311194158.GA48366@pmp.uni-hannover.de> References: <1219.68.49.189.193.1141981287.squirrel@68.49.189.193> <6.2.3.4.0.20060310101705.1050a108@64.7.153.2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060310101705.1050a108@64.7.153.2> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.2.2 (mrelay3.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.41]); Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:42:04 +0100 (MET) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 Subject: Re: well-supported SATA RAID card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:42:40 -0000 On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:30:48AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > The 3Ware cards work really well under FreeBSD. I have dozens I have > been using for some time and they work and work well. Highly > recommended. Over the years I am sure I have replaced a few dozen > dead drives and have not (knock on wood) had any issues rebuilding > degraded sets. Another card I have been recently using is the ARECA. > Its quite a fast card and has a similar set of management utilities. > I have not been using it as long as the 3ware, but it seems pretty good too. I have also good experiences with various 3ware cards. However, their RAID5 doesn't seem to be /that/ fast. I'm also using a Highpoint 1820A for some weeks now. It's cheaper, the Raid5 is faster and I've had no troubles so far (though others here obviously had). BTW: Are the ARECA cards different from the ones sold by TekRAM using an ARECA chip? cu Gerrit --