From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 13:31:11 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 8562516A41F for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:31:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tuliogs@pgt.mpt.gov.br) Received: from mitra.mpt.gov.br (mail.pgt.mpt.gov.br [200.157.62.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F64143D45 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:31:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tuliogs@pgt.mpt.gov.br) Received: from [10.0.0.136] (516e.pgt.mpt.gov.br [10.0.0.136]) by mail.pgt.mpt.gov.br (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9JDUuck081703 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:30:56 -0200 (BRST) (envelope-from tuliogs@pgt.mpt.gov.br) Message-ID: <43564A56.1010602@pgt.mpt.gov.br> Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:29:58 -0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tulio_Guimar=E3es_da_Silva?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org References: <000801c5d434$579de280$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <200510181620.13588.Peter_Losher@isc.org> In-Reply-To: <200510181620.13588.Peter_Losher@isc.org> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------060206080300060309070706" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 13:31:11 -0000 --------------060206080300060309070706 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mail.pgt.mpt.gov.br id j9JDUuck081703 For price/benefit, I too recommend the HPTs, specially the 1820A. It=B4= s=20 not THE killer for speed, but it=B4s fairly stable, factory-supported on=20 FBSD, has good management utils (including remote, via daemon) and is=20 about half the price of its competitors. Besides, the "A" model has its=20 own XOR processor, what apparently frees some CPU usage (I can=B4t really= =20 tell, since we use them on quite good machines and haven=B4t seen good=20 benchmarks comparing 1820 to 1820A). In addition, it=B4s low-profile, fitting even 1U rack servers, and=20 provides its own brackets for low- and high-profile... *but* it has no=20 integrated memory, and no I2C options, if it=B4s an issue. It=B4s the onl= y=20 downside with them, in my opinion. In the other hand, I would take a look at the Areca=B4s, it=B4s not the= =20 first time I hear good comments on these. They=B4re double the HPTs price= ,=20 but come with onboard ECC SDRAM and I2C features. Sounds good to me. ;) Good luck. :) T=FAlio G. da Silva Peter Losher wrote: >On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:36 pm, Steven Hartland wrote: > =20 > >>Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend >>64Bit PCIX. >> =20 >> > >I personally would reccommend the HighPoint RocketRAID series (we use th= e=20 >1820A here on a dual Opteron system running 5.4/amd64) We are using th= e=20 >HP-provided hpa.ko amd64 kernel module, but thanks to HighPoint and Scot= t=20 >Long, -CURRENT, 6.0 and 5-STABLE now have the amd64 driver integrated=20 >into /usr/src tree . (a previous i386 version of the driver has been the= re=20 >since 5.3) > >Best Wishes - Peter > =20 > --------------060206080300060309070706--