From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 23:23:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F395816A41F for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:23:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ray@redshift.com) Received: from mail.quickmeet.com (quickmeet.com [216.228.17.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B814B43D64 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:23:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ray@redshift.com) Received: from workstation (workstation [192.168.20.250]) by mail.quickmeet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 442D217032; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.20051019162330.00a5c398@pop.redshift.com> X-Mailer: na X-Sender: redshift.com Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:23:30 -0700 To: Mike Tancsa , freebsd-performance@freebsd.org From: ray@redshift.com In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20051019105439.038afaf8@64.7.153.2> References: <3.0.1.32.20051018162347.00a5f6b8@pop.redshift.com> <000801c5d434$579de280$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <3.0.1.32.20051018162347.00a5f6b8@pop.redshift.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:23:32 -0000 At 11:04 AM 10/19/2005 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: | At 07:23 PM 18/10/2005, ray@redshift.com wrote: | >At 11:36 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: | >| Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend | >| 64Bit PCIX. | >| | >| Steve | > | >Hi Steve, | > | > I am using the 3Ware 9500S-12 on our servers and like it very | > much. It's very | >easy to setup, very fast and also directly supported by the default | >Kernel. You | | Speaking of 3ware, has anyone tried out the new 9550SX ? Price seems | pretty good compared to the Areca and 3ware claims its much faster | than their previous generation cards. | | ---Mike Hi Mike, I have been thinking about getting one. The guy I bought my 3ware 9500S-12 card has one he's getting ready to benchmark. I asked him to send me the details and I will pass them along here if I get them. He did mention it supports SATA2 - whatever that provides. It's supposed to be twice as fast on the speed from what I saw on 3ware's site. Speaking of the 9500S-12, I just did some benchmarks using that machine and MySQL reads/writes. As compared to a single SATA drive, the server was quite a bit faster when setup with the raid card and 4 10K Raptor drives. I have the benchmarks here if anyone is interested. I also just ordered 4 more 10K drives and I'm going to re-run everything in order to see how much of an improvement adding more drives has. Ray