From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 30 20:32:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF54437B41E for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from house (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g413VtbI049748; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:31:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: David Kirchner Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the "choice" RAID controller for FreeBSD? Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:32:02 -0400 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 List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have many boxes deployed with 3ware cards. My news server for example has been pounding a series of RAID0 stripes on 2 controllers for some = time now. (In bound feed is 25Mb/s+) I also have a lot of remote RAID1 boxes and have had the "fortune" of doing replacements of dead drives. Each time, all has worked as expected on FreeBSD. Performance on the RAID1 drives is very good as well in terms of read (it seems to make = intelligent use of both drives on reads) and write operations. Note, this is only on the 5400 and 6400 series. I have only used one 7xxx series card. ---Mike On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:54:56 -0700 (PDT), in = sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote: >I've been using the Adaptec 2100S and the 3200S and have been running in >to bizarre issues when it's necessary to hot-swap a drive (for example, >removing a drive, zapping a new one (in another spot), and putting it = back >in where the failed drive was, causes the entire RAID1 to be = inaccessable >- the card isn't abstracting enough.) I'm looking at my options and I'm >curious what others have used and how happy they are with them? Assume >that price is a concern but it is not _the_ concern - reliability is. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message 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