From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 18:50:53 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF9216A4CF for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:50:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from util.inch.com (mx.inch.com [216.223.198.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0CDF43D41 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:50:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gcoon@inch.com) Received: from kod.inch.com (kod.inch.com [216.223.192.68]) j0BIooep028477; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:50:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gcoon@inch.com) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:50:49 -0500 (EST) From: Gerald To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050111133450.J86996@kod.inch.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: gcoon@inch.com Subject: SATA vs SCSI RAID 5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:50:53 -0000 I recently setup a SATA RAID1 box on a highpoint controller. The machine is playing very nicely with FreeBSD and doing much better than I initially expected. Now I'm considering upgrading a SCSI system to another SATA RAID 5 system. Can anyone tell me about SATA RAID 5 experiences? The company I'm looking at purchasing this from is using the Highpoint R1820 controller. SATA= "putting the 'I' back in RAID" or "magic 8 ball says, 'Ask again later."? For reference on the decision making, the present machine is setup on an Adaptec 3200S with all but one of the partitions as RAID1 and the last one as RAID5. All the drives in the present system are SCSI SCA 10k RPMs I believe. The machine is primarily an apache 1.3/freeBSD 4 web server doing 25-30 MB of web traffic at peak 17-20 MB on Average. Gerald