From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 3 02:13:24 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 77E2116A41F for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 02:13:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253EB43D45 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 02:13:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from p4.roq.com (localhost.roq.com [127.0.0.1]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 686A74CF5C; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 02:13:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.46.52] (ppp166-27.static.internode.on.net [150.101.166.27]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7B44CED8; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 02:13:47 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4369723C.1060006@roq.com> Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:13:16 +1100 From: Michael VInce User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051019 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ray@redshift.com References: <000801c5d434$579de280$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <4368921C.40305@roq.com> <3.0.1.32.20051102053015.00a73dc0@pop.redshift.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20051102053015.00a73dc0@pop.redshift.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:13:24 -0000 ray@redshift.com wrote: >At 07:29 AM 11/2/2005 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: >| At 05:47 AM 02/11/2005, Achim Patzner wrote: >| >>For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which >| >>use the 'aac' >| >>Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. >| > >| >Did you ever have to replace a failed drive? You might try it, just >| >to see if you're still happy afterwards. >| >| Thats one thing I must say about 3ware that I really like. I have >| been using the cards for years now and have not had issues when it >| came to swapping out dead drives. I havent had the opportunity to >| do it with the ARECA yet in production to see how it works, only as a test. >| >| ---Mike > >Mike, > > Here is a link to the mysql benchmarks I was talking about. If you can run >them using the 3ware raid and the other raid, I would be interested to see what >sort of results you get. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. > >http://www.redshift.com/~ray/mysql_bench > > These are my personal benchmarks I use here, but I added a file to try to walk >you through stuff and in case you want to share them with anyone else, etc. If >you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me. > >Take care! > >Ray > > > I would like to give it a shot but don't really have time at the moment. I might do it sometime in the future though. Thanks anyway. Mike