From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 17:52:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7062B16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:52:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from fed1mtao01.cox.net (fed1mtao01.cox.net [68.6.19.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B3943D31 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:52:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brently@bjwcs.com) Received: from SAMBA ([68.98.26.35]) by fed1mtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040113015258.GDTN3322.fed1mtao01.cox.net@SAMBA>; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:52:58 -0500 From: "Brent Wiese" To: "'Rogier Krieger'" , "'FreeBSD-questions list'" Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:50:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcPTFjsNsBfwi9URQXeqZNJVFBi9jQGYDggQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20040104235707.0123f9c0@virgiel.xs4all.nl> Message-Id: <20040113015258.GDTN3322.fed1mtao01.cox.net@SAMBA> Subject: RE: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 01:52:59 -0000 > The 3ware cards are quite expensive, according to the pricing > lists I've > seen so far. I wonder if the 8506-card mentioned in another post also > works in 32bit PCI slots. Otherwise, I'd need a Xeon board. But that's > another post in the thread. 3Ware cards are expensive, but you get what you pay for. Whatever code they have to optimize the disk use works wonders. I also believe the price is reasonable given its hardware RAID5. BE AWARE however (found this out the hard way), their performance optimizing code only works on the FIRST volume. Shouldn't be an issue with a 4-6 port card, but when you use 200gb+ drives on a 12 port card, you end up over the 2TB volume limit and the second volume is slow as molassas... Cheers, Brent