From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 12 21:05:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 708E016A418; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:05:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@pathiakis.com) Received: from mxsf16.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf16.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC4743D46; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:05:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@pathiakis.com) Received: from mxip13a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip13a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.143]) by mxsf16.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k5CL5QKf001217; Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:05:27 -0400 Received: from 71-10-227-8.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com (HELO pc4.atlantisservices.com) ([71.10.227.8]) by mxip13a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 12 Jun 2006 17:05:26 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.05,229,1146456000"; d="scan'208"; a="460235031:sNHT23711874" From: Paul Pathiakis Organization: Myself To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:06:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <448D27E2.9090703@p6m7g8.com> <448DACD3.9090304@p6m7g8.com> <57d710000606121129l66568c9aj46d3b569a8d5be56@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <57d710000606121129l66568c9aj46d3b569a8d5be56@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606121706.25038.paul@pathiakis.com> Cc: "Philip M. Gollucci" , pete wright , questions@freebsd.org, Nikolas Britton Subject: Re: hardware raid suggestions 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: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:05:29 -0000 If you go SATA RAID, I've had good luck and good speed with RocketRaid 1820 cards. P. On Monday 12 June 2006 14:29, pete wright wrote: > On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > > Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) > > >> I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. > > >> > > >> I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup > > >> both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and not > > >> software. > > >> > > >> I'm more interested in the performance from raid then the redundancy. > > >> > > >> Its mainly if not exclusively going to be used for compilations of > > >> software ASF software. Ideally, I'd like to NFS mount its disk on my > > >> desktop over a local gigabit lan. > > >> > > >> Any pointers appreciated. > > >> > > >> I'm willing spend up to about $1,000. > > > > > > How much space do you want? > > > > 500GB->1TB is probably way more then I need, but I won't complain. > > > > I think 250GB should be good. > > I have had good luck with LSI RAID cards (hardware reliability wise). > You may want to check the archives for fully supported, non-GIANT > locked cards. From a performance perspective I would invest in a card > with ample onboard ram 128megs or greater, and investigate getting a > BBU unit for the card as well. > > -pete