Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:53:42 -0600 From: "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> To: <gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards Message-ID: <017d01c629b3$f19ab2d0$0401a8c0@Mike8500> In-Reply-To: <04b301c629ab$aa50db50$6501a8c0@workdog>
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Gayn Winters <mailto:gayn.winters@bristolsystems.com> wrote: >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mike >> Loiterman Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:57 PM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards >> >> >> I'm looking to setup a 4 drive SATA RAID 5 file server for mp3, avi, >> and other media using 6.0-RELEASE. >> >> It appears that the supported SATA RAID cards listed in >> /stand/help/HARDWARE.TXT are all over $400.00. That's hard for to >> justify for this application, unless there are no other choices. >> >> I'd like to keep this simple, so if the price for that is $450 >> bucks, well, I guess I'll have to deal with that. But, I figured it >> wouldn't hurt to ask if are there any well supported SATA RAID cards >> (meaning setup automatically recognizes an array setup in the RAID >> card's BIOS as one drive) in the $100 to $200 range. I don't need >> anything other than 5, but other levels would be nice for future >> use. Even better would be a motherboard with onboard RAID that >> FreeBSD supported natively. >> >> If there aren't any such cards or motherboards, are there relatively >> easy work-arounds using less expensive cards? > > Have you considered software RAID5? > > -gayn > > Bristol Systems Inc. > 714/532-6776 > www.bristolsystems.com I have, and I use it for a RAID 1 server I'm running now. For this application I think hardware makes it more sense. My gut feel is that it will probably be faster, for RAID 5, to do it in hardware. Am I wrong? ------------------------------ Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: mike@ascendency.net PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E
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