From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 13 16:36: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7405D37B400 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:35:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1E0Zrx16010; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:35:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house.sentex.net (fcage [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.11.6/8.11.6av) with ESMTP id g1E0Zo916002; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:35:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020213193408.05008720@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:38:13 -0500 To: Bill Swingle From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Best ATA RAID controller Cc: stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020214003026.GA21717@dub.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020213192733.03866ec8@192.168.0.12> <5.1.0.14.0.20020213192733.03866ec8@192.168.0.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 At 04:30 PM 2/13/2002 -0800, Bill Swingle wrote: >Does FreeBSD support Raid5 on the 4 port 3ware card? The man page (2 >years old) only mentions raid0 and raid1. Yes it does from what I understand. But I have no direct experience in that config. If you want speed, RAID0. Speed and reliability, RAID10. Our internal win2k SQL server runs RAID 10. It cut our month end billing run time by 50% when we moved it to the RAID10 set from a single 10K RPM SCSI drive. If you want to see what the config looks like on FreeBSD, I can send you a PDF of the various pages off list. ---Mike >-Bill > >On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 07:30:09PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > I have many of these cards deployed on FreeBSD, Linux and Win2k. They > work > > VERY well under FreeBSD for me. In someways, better than the native > drivers > > under Win2k! RAID1,0 and 10 have all been very reliable and performed very > > well for me. My news server which takes a 25Mb/s (sustained) USENET feed > > pounds the hell out of 2 4 port cards each with 2 RAID 0 configs. > > > > ---Mike > > > > At 02:40 PM 2/13/2002 -0800, Michael Smith 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? > > > > > >Any of the 3ware controllers will do this just fine. ATA-100 isn't > > >really a requirement; the ATA-66 controllers perform nearly as well > > >(unless you need 64-bit PCI) and cost a lot less. > > > > > >Regards, > > >Mike > > > > > >-- > > >To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, > > >or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not > > >only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to > > >the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt > > > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 > > Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net > > Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net > > Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > >-- >-=| Bill Swingle - >-=| Every message PGP signed >-=| Fingerprint: C1E3 49D1 EFC9 3EE0 EA6E 6414 5200 1C95 8E09 0223 >-=| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" Pablo Picasso > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message