From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 23:23:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0EFE16A41F for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:23:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ray@redshift.com) Received: from mail.quickmeet.com (quickmeet.com [216.228.17.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD5043D70 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:23:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ray@redshift.com) Received: from workstation (workstation [192.168.20.250]) by mail.quickmeet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id ABC5917032; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20051018162347.00a5f6b8@pop.redshift.com> X-Mailer: na X-Sender: redshift.com Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:23:47 -0700 To: "Steven Hartland" , From: ray@redshift.com In-Reply-To: <000801c5d434$579de280$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:23:51 -0000 At 11:36 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: | Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend | 64Bit PCIX. | | Steve Hi Steve, I am using the 3Ware 9500S-12 on our servers and like it very much. It's very easy to setup, very fast and also directly supported by the default Kernel. You just go into the BIOS on the card with Alt+3 when you boot, lay out the raid however you want, then install FreeBSD as you normally would. The OS pretty much sees it as a single volume, although something like fsck can also access the individual drives in single user mode. It's a real nice setup and never had any problems. Ray