Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 14:33:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org> Cc: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID 466? Message-ID: <20000220143331.E50294@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000219190333.02423880@mail.cpl.net> References: <4.2.0.58.20000218205827.0249ca10@mail.cpl.net> <4.2.0.58.20000218205827.0249ca10@mail.cpl.net> <20000219175431.A12665@futuresouth.com> <4.2.0.58.20000219190333.02423880@mail.cpl.net>
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On Saturday, 19 February 2000 at 19:07:06 -0800, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > At 05:54 PM 2/19/00 -0600, Tim Tsai wrote: >> It is but apparently there are some problems with the support for that >> card at the moment. See freebsd-current for a current thread on it. > > I did search... I found a message from Mike that this card does work. On > another note, does anyone have any opinion about Vinm versus this (or > similar) card for RAID0? I may be putting together a moderate news server > (140 gigs or so), and from what I hear Vinum + regular SCSI disks may be > just as fast, or maybe even faster. The jury's still out on this one. > Anyone have any other thoughts on this? I've seen Gregs page with > the performace versus a VERY old DPT card, but that card is so old > its not really fair compared to todays cards.... Correct. There are a number of things wrong on that web page. Mike Smith and I have been meaning to do some definitive tests for some time, but we need some tuits. At the moment, the best I can say is that we don't know which performs better. Vinum will typically saturate a SCSI disk, so it's not clear that the hardware solutions can be better. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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