From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 13 16:44:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D4E937B400 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:44:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23888 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Feb 2002 00:44:47 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:44:47 -0800 From: Bill Swingle To: Mike Tancsa Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best ATA RAID controller Message-ID: <20020214004447.GA22801@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> <5.1.0.14.0.20020213193408.05008720@192.168.0.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020213193408.05008720@192.168.0.12> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD toxic.magnesium.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE 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 --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hehe, I just want reliability. Speed is really not an issue since it's just a *huge* mp3 archive ;) After you hit the 100Gb mark it becomes a bit wieldy to backup so I just need as much space as I can get out of the disks I have and still be able to lose a disk. -Bill On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 07:38:13PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > 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. >=20 > Yes it does from what I understand. But I have no direct experience in= =20 > that config. If you want speed, RAID0. Speed and reliability, RAID10. Our= =20 > internal win2k SQL server runs RAID 10. It cut our month end billing run= =20 > time by 50% when we moved it to the RAID10 set from a single 10K RPM SCSI= =20 > drive. If you want to see what the config looks like on FreeBSD, I can se= nd=20 > you a PDF of the various pages off list. >=20 > ---Mike >=20 >=20 > >-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= =20 > >work > >> VERY well under FreeBSD for me. In someways, better than the native=20 > >drivers > >> under Win2k! RAID1,0 and 10 have all been very reliable and performed= =20 > >very > >> well for me. My news server which takes a 25Mb/s (sustained) USENET f= eed > >> 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=20 > >create a > >> >4 > >> >> disk RAID 0 set. What is considered the best, reasonably priced, AT= A=20 > >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= =20 > >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 > > > >-- > >-=3D| Bill Swingle - > >-=3D| Every message PGP signed > >-=3D| Fingerprint: C1E3 49D1 EFC9 3EE0 EA6E 6414 5200 1C95 8E09 0223 > >-=3D| "Computers are useless. 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