From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Nov 16 16:11:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-206-90-77.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.90.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0924437B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAH0IJF01394; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:18:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011170018.eAH0IJF01394@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tom Samplonius Cc: Geoff Buckingham , scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Today's best RAID card? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:23 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:18:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Once 4.2 hits RELEASE, what is going to be the best host-based RAID > controller? "Best" In which context? > I was happy with a Mylex AccelRAID 150 and mlxcontrol, but Mylex has > changed over their product lines. I understand mlxcontrol does not > understand the new Mylex cards yet. I'm planning to setup about 14 > servers in about 6 weeks with various RAID1 and RAID1+0 configs and I have > no idea which model to get. Unless you're allergic to IDE, I'd strongly consider the 3ware ATA cards; for RAID0 and RAID1 it's impossible to beat them on price/performance, and they have FreeBSD native management tools in beta right now. For SCSI RAID; I am still working on management. I really, really need volunteers for this though; my time just isn't enough for this. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message