From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 17:53:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F5A316A420 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:53:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.192.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 080DD43D49 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:53:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from eisenhower.ascendency.net ([67.173.128.145]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20060204175346m14005729le>; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:53:46 +0000 Received: from Mike8500 (ipcop.localdomain [192.168.1.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by eisenhower.ascendency.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k14Hrgp1052575 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:53:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) From: "Mike Loiterman" To: , Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:53:42 -0600 Message-ID: <017d01c629b3$f19ab2d0$0401a8c0@Mike8500> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 In-Reply-To: <04b301c629ab$aa50db50$6501a8c0@workdog> Thread-Index: AcYpq2lVTnUxxSGbRHy1FuGmQa+g0wACEMCg X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (eisenhower.ascendency.net [192.168.1.22]); Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:53:45 -0600 (CST) Cc: Subject: RE: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mike@ascendency.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:53:48 -0000 Gayn Winters 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