From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 09:42:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF4721065672 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:42:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from svein-listmail@stillbilde.net) Received: from mail.stillbilde.net (unknown [IPv6:2002:51af:3dc3:0:20c:29ff:fece:79f3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75F918FC16 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:42:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2002:51af:3dc3:0:c973:db39:91cc:ef4c] (unknown [IPv6:2002:51af:3dc3:0:c973:db39:91cc:ef4c]) (Authenticated sender: svein-listmail) by mail.stillbilde.net (Familien Skogens mail) with ESMTPSA id 1CE2123 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:42:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4BA1F580.8010909@stillbilde.net> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:42:24 +0100 From: "Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <23ed14b81003180137n61261b5axa22677a0a7bbe544@mail.gmail.com> <23ed14b81003180235u46113ff4i126420b882dbdada@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23ed14b81003180235u46113ff4i126420b882dbdada@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Hardware RAID controller questions - 3Ware vs RocketRaid X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:42:24 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 18.03.2010 10:35, Andy Wodfer wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Matthew Law wrote: > > >> Is ZFS not an option? >> > > I'm afraid ZFS is not an option for this customer. I use ZFS on other system > and it works great, but here the requirement is RAID5, hotswap, hotspare and > so on. You should consider the LSI Megaraid SAS as well. The aging 8308elp, performs quite nicely with decent disks. Got one here (at home) handling 8 1T5 Barracudas in RAID50 (with coldspares), that routinely handles 400+mbytes/sec io, even in windows. It's been running in FreeBSD as well, but until I can figure out how to get reliable backups (the MPT issue shared with OpenSolaris) I'm stuck with windows on the box. FreeBSD's mfiutil works works splendidly with the controller allowing you to handle things like patrol-reads from an SSH session without much trouble. As a SAS-controller, it "eats" both SAS and SATA disks, and plain and simple just "works". //Svein - -- - --------+-------------------+------------------------------- /"\ |Svein Skogen | svein@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9 | PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X |2020 Skedsmokorset | svein@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP Key: 0xCE96CE13 | | svein@stillbilde.net ascii | | PGP Key: 0x58CD33B6 ribbon |System Admin | svein-listmail@stillbilde.net Campaign|stillbilde.net | PGP Key: 0x22D494A4 +-------------------+------------------------------- |msn messenger: | Mobile Phone: +47 907 03 575 |svein@jernhuset.no | RIPE handle: SS16503-RIPE - --------+-------------------+------------------------------- If you really are in a hurry, mail me at svein-mobile@stillbilde.net This mailbox goes directly to my cellphone and is checked even when I'm not in front of my computer. - ------------------------------------------------------------ Picture Gallery: https://gallery.stillbilde.net/v/svein/ - ------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuh9YAACgkQODUnwSLUlKTZiwCeODrGVYneWFn9nKZDUJ5jhOdt 3boAoIM/HrcfpzKXNOsPic+QQ4ooaL5d =Yya0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----