From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Feb 7 22:17:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E44D37B491 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 22:17:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.2/8.11.1) with SMTP id f186Grl19189; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 01:16:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: operator@phreak.net ("Steve Kaczkowski") Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware RAID-5 anyone? Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 01:16:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As the firmware just came out, I would not bother just yet. Even some tweaks with the stripe size in the recent past caused me grief on win2k, LINUX and FreeBSD. For now, I would stick to RAID-10. Very fast, still very cheap, and very reliable to date. ---Mike On 7 Feb 2001 21:08:26 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: >Just wondering if anyone out there has played around with the new RAID-5= =20 >features of the 3ware cards? Seems like people have had good luck with = them=20 >in the past (And Mike even likes em! :) ) but I'm wondering how = performance=20 >is and how well it handles bad disks,etc.. > >I might just give it a shot considering I can get 8 channels for $409! = At=20 >the very lease I could *GASP* throw it in an NT box.. :) > >Thanks! Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message