From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 12:21:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 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 5220116A41F for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:21:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: from mail.interbgc.com (mx03.interbgc.com [217.9.224.229]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C00E43D53 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:21:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nike_d@cytexbg.com) Received: (qmail 8354 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2005 12:21:38 -0000 Received: from nike_d@cytexbg.com by keeper.interbgc.com by uid 1002 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (uvscan: v4.2.40/v4374. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:SA:0(-2.6/8.0):. Processed in 2.063492 secs); 27 Jun 2005 12:21:38 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=8.0 Received: from 213-240-205-251.1697748.ddns.cablebg.net (HELO tormentor.totalterror.net) (213.240.205.251) by mx03.interbgc.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2005 12:21:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 30832 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2005 12:21:35 -0000 Received: from qmail by qscan (mail filter); 27 Jun 2005 12:21:35 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.3?) (10.0.0.3) by tormentor.totalterror.net with SMTP; 27 Jun 2005 12:21:35 -0000 Message-ID: <42BFEF62.3000206@cytexbg.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:21:54 +0300 From: Niki Denev User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <42BEDA12.9080600@ibsd.us> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: RAID Cards 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: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:21:41 -0000 >I am looking to build a new file server. I have used >Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking >at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any >opinions on RAID cards? After the initial attempt to use Adaptec 2010S ZeroChannel raid on one Supermicro Dual Opteron server that we use in our office, i was really dissapointed by the abyssmal performance of this so called raid card. Then i have switched to GEOM stripe + mirror combination for RAID10, and everybody is happy ever after :) The zero channel was literally blown away by the gsripe+gmirror performance in the benchmarks that i have made. --niki