From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 11:18:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F4CC16A41F for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:18:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richardtector@thekeelecentre.com) Received: from mx0.thekeelecentre.com (mx0.thekeelecentre.com [217.206.238.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92C7F43D48 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:18:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richardtector@thekeelecentre.com) Received: from av.mx0.thekeelecentre.com (av.mx0.thekeelecentre.com [217.206.238.166]) by mx0.thekeelecentre.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83ECD429B; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:18:48 +0100 (BST) Received: from mx0.thekeelecentre.com ([217.206.238.167]) by av.mx0.thekeelecentre.com (av.mx0.thekeelecentre.com [217.206.238.166]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53780-05; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:18:48 +0100 (BST) Received: from anvil (82-71-32-9.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.71.32.9]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx0.thekeelecentre.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0F24096; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:18:46 +0100 (BST) From: "Richard Tector" To: "'Mike Tancsa'" , "'Steven Hartland'" , Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:18:45 +0100 Message-ID: <001801c5d49e$dfc81440$0b02000a@anvil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20051018234157.085cd7b8@64.7.153.2> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mx0.thekeelecentre.com Cc: Subject: RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:18:51 -0000 I've got a system here running 6.0-RC1 with the 8 port PCI-X Areca card and a 7 disk RAID5 array of 320GB Western Digital disks. I have to agree with Mike here, they are indeed extremely fast and I can't say I've ever had any issues with it. Recommended. However, I haven't had much cause to use the CLI management utils, so I can't really comment there. Richard -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-performance@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-performance@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa Sent: 19 October 2005 04:45 To: Steven Hartland; freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations At 06:36 PM 18/10/2005, Steven Hartland wrote: >Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend 64Bit PCIX. I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm ---Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"