Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:23:30 -0700 From: ray@redshift.com To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20051019162330.00a5c398@pop.redshift.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20051019105439.038afaf8@64.7.153.2> References: <3.0.1.32.20051018162347.00a5f6b8@pop.redshift.com> <000801c5d434$579de280$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <3.0.1.32.20051018162347.00a5f6b8@pop.redshift.com>
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At 11:04 AM 10/19/2005 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: | At 07:23 PM 18/10/2005, ray@redshift.com wrote: | >At 11:36 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: | >| Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend | >| 64Bit PCIX. | >| | >| Steve | > | >Hi Steve, | > | > I am using the 3Ware 9500S-12 on our servers and like it very | > much. It's very | >easy to setup, very fast and also directly supported by the default | >Kernel. You | | Speaking of 3ware, has anyone tried out the new 9550SX ? Price seems | pretty good compared to the Areca and 3ware claims its much faster | than their previous generation cards. | | ---Mike Hi Mike, I have been thinking about getting one. The guy I bought my 3ware 9500S-12 card has one he's getting ready to benchmark. I asked him to send me the details and I will pass them along here if I get them. He did mention it supports SATA2 - whatever that provides. It's supposed to be twice as fast on the speed from what I saw on 3ware's site. Speaking of the 9500S-12, I just did some benchmarks using that machine and MySQL reads/writes. As compared to a single SATA drive, the server was quite a bit faster when setup with the raid card and 4 10K Raptor drives. I have the benchmarks here if anyone is interested. I also just ordered 4 more 10K drives and I'm going to re-run everything in order to see how much of an improvement adding more drives has. Ray
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