Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:07:03 +0200 From: "Clayton Milos" <clay@milos.co.za> To: "Artem Kuchin" <matrix@itlegion.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? Message-ID: <009401c74b68$e19b45c0$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <45CAF3F1.80207@sun-fish.com>
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Hello,
Artem Kuchin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I need a raid controller for FBSD 6.2 which has the following options
>
> 1) Full SATA-II support
> 2) Good rperfomance (over 50MB read, over 30 write) in mirror mode
> 3) No weird problems with freebSD (like with SRCS16)
> 4) Utility to monitor status of raids (command line or web)
> 5) Utility to rebuild, repair, manager arrays in OS
> 6) Preferably Intel
I'm very happy with ARECA ARC1110.
ARECA also provide cli tool for freebsd on their site.
I'm using it in RAID 10 configuration and here are few benchmark results
that I run on production server ;)
*bonnie++ -d /var/tmp -u root -s 16g -n 256:65536:65536:16 Version 1.93c*
Version 1.93c ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input-
--Random-
Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--
Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP
/sec %CP
blah.cmotd.com 16G 159 88 54264 24 24727 12 299 94 70744 19
223.5 12
Latency 63581us 803ms 1123ms 93936us 94991us
251ms
Version 1.93c ------Sequential Create------ --------Random
Create--------
blah.cmotd.com -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
-Delete--
files:max:min /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
256:65536:65536/16 715 24 826 25 17321 49 733 24 51 2
6039 70
Latency 1220ms 408ms 2805ms 1189ms 692ms
2735ms
*./bonnie++ -d /mnt/mblogs -u root -s 16g -n 256:65536:65536:16 -
Version 1.03*
Version 1.03 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input-
--Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--
Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP
/sec %CP
blah.cmotd.com 16G 54953 57 56950 21 24375 10 48757 49 70351 17
202.5 1
------Sequential Create------ --------Random
Create--------
-Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read---
-Delete--
files:max:min /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP
/sec %CP
256:65536:65536/16 723 20 909 17 20905 41 756 21 51 2
6528 74
FreeBSD blah.XXX 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #3: Tue Oct 10
13:28:56 CEST 2006 root@blah.XXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CORE-SMP i386
>
> I know, 3ware has such good stuff, but those controller are not
> certified for internet services in here (russia). So, i am pretty much
> limited to Intel controllers. Is there intel controller which satisfied
> all the
> 1-6 conditions? I only need mirroring.
>
> --
> С уважением,
> Артем Кучин
> ООО "Ай Ти Легион"
> www.itlegion.ru
> +7 (495) 232-0338
I'll second Stefan with the Areca. I have an Areca 1120 8 port SATA2
controller.
It hasn't given me an ounce of issues. It's got a nice CLI and web based
interface as well as being SNMP manageable.
Been running mine for 2 years without any issues at all. It also supports
nifty things like online volume expansion and hot-swapping (if you have the
hot-swap SATA drive bays)
-Clay
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