From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Nov 16 20:59:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E46537B479; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:59:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13wdEG-0002x8-00; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:34:24 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:34:23 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Mike Smith Cc: Geoff Buckingham , scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Today's best RAID card? In-Reply-To: <200011170018.eAH0IJF01394@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Once 4.2 hits RELEASE, what is going to be the best host-based RAID > > controller? > > "Best" In which context? Reliable. > > 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. I'm looking at the new IBM Netfinity 4500/x340 which includes three hotswap SCSI bays on a SCSI backplane. Adding a SCSI RAID card to these is easy. Adding IDE isn't. In fact, does hotswap IDE even work? > 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. Volunteers to do what exactly? > -- > ... 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 Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message