From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 28 23:30:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.mbox.com.au (smtp2.mbox.com.au [203.103.80.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39AF37B720 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 23:30:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from das@mbox.com.au) Received: from mbox.com.au (webmail.i7mail.com.au [192.168.20.4]) by smtp2.mbox.com.au (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0GAY003GD6TO9I@smtp2.mbox.com.au> for hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:15:25 +0800 (WST) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:15:25 +1000 From: das@mbox.com.au Subject: Re: What raid controler for FreeBSD and Windows To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <1f6e981f02d3.1f02d31f6e98@mbox.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The 3ware IDE raid controllers seem to be the best performace for your dollar. FreeBSD guys have ported the drivers, and guys in the stable list seems to be having a pretty good time with them. Mike Smith (in stable) has been having a few problems, but he's seriously flogging the card (30,000 inserts to a MySQL database, it craps out after 8 hours flat out). I've just had the International Sales guy visit and he impressed me. They are attacking Adaptec market hard. There 32 bit board (64bit comming soon) have upto 10 IDE ATA66 seperate controllers. Unlike most RAID controllers the mirrored disks are actually used to speed up the read times (reading a bit form each disk, qued up reads). Through put rates are very good. Check the site. Also check 'www.storeagereview.com'. Google use these cards, so they must be ok for large amounts of data and speed. Anyway, just a suggestion... dave seddon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message