From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 16 00:24:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C516C106568F for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:24:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39EE48FC08 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au ([203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1G0O7nV061426 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:54:07 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:53:55 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B7980E0.1020907@langille.org> <4B79B6BB.1060809@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4B79B6BB.1060809@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2200761.ki4r8joN1f"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002161054.04696.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.639 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Dan Naumov , Steve Polyack , Dan Langille Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:24:16 -0000 --nextPart2200761.ki4r8joN1f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: > I'm not sure about that particular card, but we've never seen that > great of performance out of the LSI MegaRAID cards that ship with > Dell servers as the PERC. =A0The newest incarnations are better, but I > would try to get an Areca. =A0The ones we have tested have displayed > fantastic > performance. =A0They are fairly expensive in comparison, though. =A0If > you're using ZFS in place of the RAID on the LSI MegaRAID, I'd > instead recommend other simpler SAS cards which are known to have > good driver support. Why even bother with the LSI card at all? That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want to=20 use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2200761.ki4r8joN1f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLeeWk5ZPcIHs/zowRAvzBAJsH9V9Akc2JguiPMkd4H1wUmeW+aQCgpm4f G2JplYbdC9cdFdJk4c6FKwI= =ZYTn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2200761.ki4r8joN1f--