From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 29 06:24:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5B316A41F for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:24:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from calvin@areca.us) Received: from smtp011.mail.yahoo.com (smtp011.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B1DE43D48 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:24:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from calvin@areca.us) Received: (qmail 83757 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2005 06:24:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO CALVIN2) (cfchen98@69.226.252.235 with login) by smtp011.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2005 06:24:57 -0000 From: "Calvin" To: "'Mike Tancsa'" , "'Francisco'" Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:25:08 -0700 Message-ID: <000e01c5dc51$82b30840$4302a8c0@CALVIN2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20051029001622.05bf16f8@64.7.153.2> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:32:59 +0000 Cc: 'FreeBSD Performance' Subject: RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: calvin@areca.us List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 06:24:58 -0000 Francisco, You can buy it directly from us. Please let me know PCI-X or PCI-Express card you might need and how many ports, or the product number if you know. I will give you the quotation. Best regards, Calvin Chen Areca USA,Inc. www.areca.us (510) 438-0288 (w) (510) 991-9928 (Fax) (510) 676-7740 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:mike@sentex.net] Sent: 10/28/2005 9:24 PM To: Francisco Cc: FreeBSD Performance Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations At 12:11 AM 29/10/2005, Francisco wrote: >On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >>I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the >>fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD >>support and they are FAST >> >>http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm > >Where did you get your area controller Mike? >Looking at their site it seems as if one could buy directly from >them, but did not find any prices. Hi, I get them directly from Areca. I have bcc'd the Calvin (the guy I have dealt with) so he can contact you. Like I said before, they have been great cards for me under FreeBSD. Linux performs well too, but is a bit of a pain as its not part of the default kernel. But performance has been great and the extremely stable. We are going to try some of the PCI-e versions next month. My experience to date has been with the PCI-X versions only. I finally got my 3ware 9500SX today and should have time to test next week as I dont have a spare PCI-X board in the lab right now. Should be able to get a decent comparison performance wise between the two boards with respect to FreeBSD. ---Mike