From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 9 19:10:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E9F037B7EA for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:10:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA13640; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 22:09:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000809220035.04baf4d0@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 22:03:52 -0400 To: "Nicole Harrington." From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: 3ware IDE Raid. SCSI killer? Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <3990bd61.156080972@mail.sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 02:30 PM 8/9/2000 -0700, Nicole Harrington. wrote: >On 09-Aug-00 Mike Tancsa wrote: > > On 8 Aug 2000 01:59:20 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.chat you wrote: > > > >>Just finished reading a whole bunch of info from 3ware's web > >>site. They even claim to have obtained greater throughput than > >>it is possible with SCS3. To be more specific they claim they > >>achieved 100MB/S performance. > > > > They are not bad little boards for the money. I am using one in our proxy > > server and just about to put one into our news server. The only thing > > lacking at this point are any management FreeBSD management tools. > > However, I am using them for RAID 0, so I dont really care at this point as > > I just want speed. Hopefully 3mware will give msmith the info he needs in > > order to create this program sometime in the future. > > > > Why is it that there are no RAID 5 controlers for IDE? There are external ones from a few companies that are presented as a SCSI interface. I think ultimately in a server, many user environment, SCSI will do better with the proper driver implementation. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message