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Subject: Re: IDE Raid controllers - 3Ware 9000 Series
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Howdy - I'm looking for some advice on the 3ware 9000 raid cards. I've just 
bought a 9500S-8, running it on 5.2.1 - raid 50 across 8 drives, and so far 
the transfer rates are extremely slow (<25MB/s). 3Ware support haven't given 
me a useful answer yet, so could you give me some advice as to how you've 
got your system configured?

Many thanks,

Mike

>On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 20:46, Spam This wrote:
> > Anyone know a good IDE Raid controller that works under a SMP FreeBSD
> > system?
> > > I'm looking for something that can do RAID 5, something stable and is
> > hardware based (I heard some controllers just use the main CPU to do 
>raid
> > instead of having a built on chip).
> > > Anyone use 3ware cards under FreeBSD?
>
>I'd highly recommend the 3Ware 9000 Series. These are fully supported in
>FreeBSD, and work fine with SMP.
>
>Also the 3dm2 monitoring software is great.

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