From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Mar 26 16:20: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFF137B71A for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:19:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2R0I1E02747; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:18:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103270018.f2R0I1E02747@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Joseph Gleason" Cc: "Michael VanLoon" , "Ed Henderson" , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server MB suggestions? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:09:57 EST." <005801c0b652$429f8d20$dc02010a@fireduck.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:18:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just a couple of comments: [ATA RAID] > 3) Keep it at one drive per chain. I am no hardware expert, but it is my > understanding that there are major performance hits if you have two drives > on a single chain. All of the (useful) ATA RAID controllers only put one drive on a channel, so this isn't really an issue. [earlier you said...] > > I have used DPT (now Adaptec) RAID controllers with great success. Be > > careful because Adaptec has two lines. The line they developed > themselves, > > which is rather underwhelming, and the line they acquired when they bought > > DPT. This is actually the wrong way around; the Nashua-built Adaptec RAID controllers are actually substantially better products (IMO) than the DPT models, both in terms of reliability and performance. -- ... 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-hardware" in the body of the message