From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Nov 16 21: 7:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (unknown [167.216.157.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B29637B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:07:45 -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 eAH5EHF00598; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:14:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011170514.eAH5EHF00598@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 "Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:34:23 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 21:14:17 -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? > > Reliable. I'm pretty happy with all of the RAID controllers I'm supporting apart from the 'aac' hardware at the moment (which is why it's not in -stable!). > > 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. Fair enough. For something like this, I'd recommend one of the low-end AMI (eg. Express 500), Mylex (AcceleRAID 170) or Adaptec (ASR2100) cards. > In fact, does hotswap IDE even work? Yes; the 3ware 6x00 family cards should do it pretty well. > > 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? Code; you interested? Regards, Mike -- ... 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