From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 22:12:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1476B16A402 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:12:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandrews@bit0.com) Received: from mindcrime.bit0.com (bit0.com [207.246.88.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C37D613C442 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 22:12:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandrews@bit0.com) Received: from [172.27.0.11] (nat.bit0.com [207.246.88.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mindcrime.bit0.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F51730002 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:12:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45CBA15F.4090408@bit0.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:17:03 -0500 From: Mike Andrews User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem><20070208094620.GA9599@rink.nu><00a701c74b6e$7c3e4550$fe03a8c0@claylaptop><20070208165224.GA35610@icarus.home.lan><200702081902.l18J24Dm055927@lava.sentex.ca><20070208195410.GA38036@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 22:12:56 -0000 Jaime Bozza wrote: > Everyone has their reasons - I liked the RAID 6 feature, plus the OOB > management of Areca, plus my history with 3ware wasn't good. :( For what it's worth, 3Ware's latest PCI-E cards (9650 series) now support RAID 6. The updated twa driver that supports them hasn't yet been merged into FreeBSD (see kern/106488 which I filed 2 months ago) but you can download either the source or the binary for it from 3Ware that works just fine. The updated 3dm2 for it did make it into the Ports tree. Driver annoyances aside, my 9650SE is considerably faster than my 9500S (both have batteries, both have the drive's write cache off), especially on writes, and they are both much faster than my Adaptec 2410SA (which has no battery option and thus needed write caching disabled). Despite not being a fan of the 2410SA, I'm pretty happy with the SCSI version (2120S) which uses the exact same FreeBSD driver. Part of that is the SCSI version has a battery option so write speeds don't suck, where the SATA version doesn't. Or at least that specific model of SATA card doesn't. I'm less of a fan of the older asr-based 2110S... but the one we have still works as long as we keep it in a 32-bit non-PAE box. I've never tried Areca. I would probably like them, from the sound of things. I'm sticking with 3Ware for SATA systems for now though... but hey, personal preference and all. For my next SCSI/SAS system I may have to do some serious evaluation of what's new out there... -- Mike Andrews * mandrews@bit0.com * http://www.bit0.com It's not news, it's Fark.com. Carpe cavy!