From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 3 10:41:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.siscom.net (mail.siscom.net [209.251.2.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B72A37B424 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 10:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 94175 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2000 17:41:09 -0000 Received: from computer1.j.siscom.net (HELO win) (209.251.21.114) by mail.siscom.net with SMTP; 3 Sep 2000 17:41:09 -0000 Message-ID: <005b01c015ce$542793a0$7215fbd1@mysticplaces.com> From: "Robert J. Adams" To: Subject: 3ware -vs- Promise Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 13:34:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all, If I'm setting up a system with (8) of the new 80gig maxtor's.. and I plan on having them just in JBOD (not raid stripes etc) will I see a performance gain from using the 3ware (8 port version, ~$450) over the Promise Ultra100 (~$40ea) card? I assume that I can use two Promise Ultra100's in one box? -Jason --- Robert J. Adams radams@siscom.net http://www.siscom.net Looking to outsource news? http://www.newshosting.com SISCOM Network Administration - President, SISCOM Inc. Phone: 937-222-8150 FAX: 937-222-8153 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message