From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 13 16:47:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from users.symmetric.net (centipede.symmetric.net [63.150.23.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF2D37B416 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 16:47:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by users.symmetric.net (Crow Mail v6.7, from userid 1000) id CB4581B206; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:47:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by users.symmetric.net (Crow Mail v6.7) with ESMTP id CA293D90B for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:47:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:47:34 -0600 (CST) From: presence X-X-Sender: Cc: Subject: Re: Best ATA RAID controller In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020213193408.05008720@192.168.0.12> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 I use RAID 5 on an 8 port 3ware card with 7 active 60GB IBM disks. It's really slow at a max write speed of about 7MB/s for any block size. I've had read speeds at about 16MB/s. The box is a PIII 450 with 512MB RAM KEN On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, 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. > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message