Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:52:48 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Raid cards Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20031023094848.056f4c80@209.112.4.2> In-Reply-To: <89140417.1066923745@andromede.reaumur.absolight.net> References: <89140417.1066923745@andromede.reaumur.absolight.net>
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3ware is the way to go in my experience. They work really well under
FreeBSD, Windows and Linux. The FreeBSD drivers were originally written by
Mike Smith and Paul Saab is now maintaining them. They are not overly
fancy in FreeBSD but they do what they are designed to do. I have used
them extensively in RAID0, 1 and 10. RAID 5 is slow, but thats more RAID5
than anything. Also RAID 1 seems to be very intelligent about reads, using
both drives to give better read performance as compared to the stats with
just one drive. Writes on RAID 1 are not penalized at all.
---Mike
At 09:42 AM 23/10/2003, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm in a need of such a card, but I can't find out which cards are only
>doing raid under windows with specific drivers, and which cards are doing
>real hard raid.
>
>--
>Mathieu Arnold
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