Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:34:23 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com>, scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Today's best RAID card? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10011162031260.11338-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <200011170018.eAH0IJF01394@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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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
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