From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 20 23:27:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B02106564A; Wed, 20 May 2009 23:27:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from whizzter@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f168.google.com (mail-fx0-f168.google.com [209.85.220.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 099088FC14; Wed, 20 May 2009 23:27:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from whizzter@gmail.com) Received: by fxm12 with SMTP id 12so745256fxm.43 for ; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:27:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OZa4RHFRkt0lLtn3+T69ru7aeqdkXnhY+UUKyk2nQLs=; b=mvDWRpPKwMupL/md8YbilGzBUduH/zlRqK+po+tgPywn0gL1b/jHDbboRbtA0oDp74 Sp1Twox3TDwfFPKHqcrfckKJI09bofr85Dy1zgkm6BtwQxH5a97epIa5z1Q2C3GM81+0 j8jgwLv01IOxMjazpW9k/vtRU6sh8Llf/Ne3A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=pUAhvmsejwRjbofzgYNXKnR9rFt9jsvJOXk1ET7AHOOXCLN55uJrwkGwXsEElnpYBB 5b9Sul3SdryIgUJTsUb/2Aq7FE5NegzBLk4pRGXLeKCONYC7cNWia1UtYv/VDJbCGqKJ 47c/ZTVMSeJtKD+7jBvMo2oXtPKQc7NRwbfw0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.179.1 with SMTP id g1mr1017579mup.48.1242862060096; Wed, 20 May 2009 16:27:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A148D5B.1070808@fragfest.com.au> References: <4A14885B.7000206@tbe.net> <4A148D5B.1070808@fragfest.com.au> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 01:27:40 +0200 Message-ID: <436c7eda0905201627v916dcb3i35504e3ede64dc71@mail.gmail.com> From: Jonas Lund To: Dean Hamstead Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "Gary D. Margiotta" , Ivan Voras , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Highpoint RR1520? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 23:27:41 -0000 Yes, most softraid cards are some kind of accelerator modules. However the reason to use gmirror mainly seems to be reliability. As these cards might not be that well used they've simple got less mature drivers than the standard (S)ATA stack. 2009/5/21 Dean Hamstead : > its worth benchmarking for yourself and seeing if your 64bit powerhouse c= an > outperform the raid cpu. > > most of the time you will see soft raid doign better > > Dean > > Gary D. Margiotta wrote: >> >> I have used several of these cards under FreeBSD. =A0They are not hardwa= re >> raid cards, they do not have dedicated processors on them. >> >> However, they work just fine, and you can set the raid up in the card's >> bios, and freebsd will recognize the disk as a single unit. =A0However, = I >> don't bother, I use gmirror, it's all about the same at that point. =A0I >> don't remember off the top of my head which driver it uses, but I didn't >> need to add anything. >> >> -Gary >> >> Ivan Voras wrote: >>> >>> hi, >>> >>> Is the product described at: >>> >>> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr1520.htm >>> >>> a "real" (not soft-) RAID? Is it supported by hptrr? (judging by the ma= n >>> page and a quick glance at the code, it doesn't look like it is) >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > -- > http://fragfest.com.au > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" >