From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 29 13:11:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4062337B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:11:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.50.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBBA43F85 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 13:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca) Received: from ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (localhost.uwaterloo.ca [127.0.0.1]) by ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0TLBYQe018230 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:11:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bruce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca) Received: (from www@localhost) by ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0TLBYAC018229 for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:11:34 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: ecserv7.uwaterloo.ca: www set sender to bruce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca using -f Received: from 129.97.50.50 ( [129.97.50.50]) as user bruce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca by www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca with HTTP; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:11:34 -0500 Message-ID: <1043874694.3e384386371b7@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:11:34 -0500 From: Bruce Campbell To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: seeking recommendation on ATA RAID controller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 / FreeBSD-4.6.2 X-Originating-IP: 129.97.50.50 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I plan to buy 4 ATA RAID controllers, for use in 4 separate FreeBSD 4.7 systems, and am currently examining: - Adaptec 2400A ATA-100 - Promise SuperTrak SX6000 - 3ware Escalade 7500-4LP I need the one that causes no headaches. If anyone has particularly good or bad experience, I would like to hear about it. I have not bought the drives yet, but will need 4 drives of roughly 160 - 200GB, on each controller. total i/o will be relatively light, 2 megabytes per second maybe, not sustained, mostly sequential. Thanks for any experience and wisdom anyone has to share. -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext 5889 ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message