Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 05:10:23 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "cknipe@savage.za.org" <cknipe@savage.za.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: Torn between SCSI and SATA for RAID Message-ID: <ef10de9a0605260310v4e265c1fyfba3cf4e52c27366@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1147255200.4461b9a0a5e71@196.22.132.16> References: <1147255200.4461b9a0a5e71@196.22.132.16>
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On 5/10/06, cknipe@savage.za.org <cknipe@savage.za.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been spending the last couple of days extensively looking at various > options for RAID and getting some storage system in place. Performance i= s not > really a BIG issue, but I also don't want to have things hecticly slow ei= ther. > This will be a NAS type of implementation so speed would be bound by rela= tively > speaking slow network connections in any case... > > Now first things first as well, I did look at Fiber Channels too - and th= e > tecnology is just to expensive and complex for a home type implementation= that > I want this for. > > Ideally, I'd like to start at 2TB of storage (yes, those movies must go > somewhere!), but I'd like to be able to grow this as times go by... I als= o > definately want redundancy on the data, as I just lost 80GB of precious d= ata > when ironically, a 160GB SATA Seagate went out under me. > > Now SCSI I know, is more expensive than SATA. Whether it provides beter > performance than SATA I'm still uncertain off, but gut would tell me that= due > to the cost factor, SCSI *should* run away as far as speed is concerned. = But > also as I said previously, speed and performance is not a priority for my > implementation and therefore it has very little weight. This makes me lo= ok at > SATA then therefore. > > My problem with SATA, is the whole 1 Port, 1 Drive scenario. I've looked= at the > Adaptec 16 Port SATA Controller. The reviews I managed to get on that ca= rd on > the Internet, paints a very grim picture. Buggered Firmware, the control= ler > destroys drives, and general sluggish performance. Is anyone using this = card > that can perhaps give me a better picture? You want the Areca ARC-1160-ML (ML for Multi-Lane) card: http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm http://www.rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=3D2350 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Darcmsr&apropos=3D0&sektion=3D0&m= anpath=3DFreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=3Dhtml --=20 BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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