From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 12 12:36:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mserver2.gmu.edu (mail02.gmu.edu [129.174.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D54637B41E for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:36:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from CERBERUS ([129.174.130.10]) by mserver2.gmu.edu (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GRFT7B00.H0N; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:35:35 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Steve Bernard" To: "David McNett" Cc: Subject: RE: Best ATA RAID controller Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:35:40 -0500 Message-ID: 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 IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20020212202646.GA29890@dazed.slacker.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do you not suggest the use of Highpoint's 404 card? I understand that the low-end Promise and Highpoint controllers use the system CPU for a lot of their functionality, like a Winmodem, but, I was under the impression that the better models didn't do this. Steve -----Original Message----- From: David McNett [mailto:nugget@slacker.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 3:27 PM To: Steve Bernard Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best ATA RAID controller On 12-Feb-2002, Steve Bernard wrote: > I'm looking for a high performance, stable ATA-100 RAID card to create > a 4 disk RAID 0 set. What is considered the best, reasonably priced, > ATA RAID controller for this, under 4.5-STABLE? Don't look any farther than a 3ware escalade controllers. Although they're higher priced than the hpt/promise hacks, they actually work like you'd expect and they're still dirt cheap by scsi standards. -- ________________________________________________________________________ |David McNett |To ensure privacy and data integrity this message has| |nugget@slacker.com|been encrypted using dual rounds of ROT-13 encryption| |Austin, TX USA |PGP/GPG DH 0xE43C5FC3 http://www.slacker.com/~nugget/| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message