From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Oct 23 8: 1: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from db.nexgen.com (db.nexgen.com [66.92.98.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8E3537B401 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 08:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 60990 invoked from network); 23 Oct 2001 15:00:34 -0000 Received: from localhost.nexgen.com (HELO alexus) (root@127.0.0.1) by localhost.nexgen.com with SMTP; 23 Oct 2001 15:00:34 -0000 Message-ID: <001b01c15bd3$81c0ae40$0d00a8c0@alexus> From: "alexus" To: , References: <10F29E27A956D511B0940050DA8D86A9340B2A@chat.dagupan.com> Subject: Re: 3Ware Escalade vs. Adaptec 2400A Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:00:51 -0400 Organization: NexGen MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org i run 3ware.. maybe some people will disagree with me here.. but 3ware is *the* shitiest raid controller i had to deal with.. i'm used to use escalade 6800 and now i'm using escalede 7800 as far per card itself.. they are ok, especially 7800, very fast.. as far as support from bsd itself.. its fine too what's i really dont like about them is support from 3ware themself they released buggy utility and i've been running 3ware for a year now and for this whole year they released 2 new versions, which not all bug was fixed here is the most important one.. for some reason sometimes (most of the time) it will *NOT* let you rebuild RAID on the fly, you'll have to restart your computer into bios set to do it there and restart it again... i can't realy on that many reboot on production machines.. so for 3ware i can say NO adaptec on another hand.. i have 3200s and i never ever had anyproblem.. however one minus i found is that their utility made for X windows and not for web as 3ware.. so you need to have X server/client in order to manage your controller remotely other then that both cards are good ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:31 AM Subject: 3Ware Escalade vs. Adaptec 2400A > Hi, > > We're planning to buy either a 3Ware Escalade or an Adaptec 2400A ATA RAID > adapter for our FreeBSD servers. Can you give me your feedback regarding > these products? BTW, are the Adaptec 2400A ATA RAID adapters supported by > FreeBSD? It's supported according to Adaptec's website but I'd rather get > the information from actual users. > > Thanks. > > --- > francis vidal [bitstop network services] > streaming media + web services > v(02)330-2871,(02)330-2872 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message