From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 10:08:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C98F916A504 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:08:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: from bart.milos.co.za (bart.milos.co.za [196.38.18.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EEE13C54C for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:07:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: (qmail 85348 invoked by uid 89); 8 Feb 2007 10:03:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO claylaptop) (clay@milos.za.net@192.168.3.254) by bart.milos.co.za with ESMTPA; 8 Feb 2007 10:03:10 -0000 Message-ID: <009401c74b68$e19b45c0$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> From: "Clayton Milos" To: "Artem Kuchin" References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <45CAF3F1.80207@sun-fish.com> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:07:03 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="windows-1251"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:08:17 -0000 Hello, Artem Kuchin wrote: > Hello! > > I need a raid controller for FBSD 6.2 which has the following options > > 1) Full SATA-II support > 2) Good rperfomance (over 50MB read, over 30 write) in mirror mode > 3) No weird problems with freebSD (like with SRCS16) > 4) Utility to monitor status of raids (command line or web) > 5) Utility to rebuild, repair, manager arrays in OS > 6) Preferably Intel I'm very happy with ARECA ARC1110. ARECA also provide cli tool for freebsd on their site. I'm using it in RAID 10 configuration and here are few benchmark results that I run on production server ;) *bonnie++ -d /var/tmp -u root -s 16g -n 256:65536:65536:16 Version 1.93c* Version 1.93c ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP blah.cmotd.com 16G 159 88 54264 24 24727 12 299 94 70744 19 223.5 12 Latency 63581us 803ms 1123ms 93936us 94991us 251ms Version 1.93c ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- blah.cmotd.com -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files:max:min /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 256:65536:65536/16 715 24 826 25 17321 49 733 24 51 2 6039 70 Latency 1220ms 408ms 2805ms 1189ms 692ms 2735ms *./bonnie++ -d /mnt/mblogs -u root -s 16g -n 256:65536:65536:16 - Version 1.03* Version 1.03 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP blah.cmotd.com 16G 54953 57 56950 21 24375 10 48757 49 70351 17 202.5 1 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files:max:min /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 256:65536:65536/16 723 20 909 17 20905 41 756 21 51 2 6528 74 FreeBSD blah.XXX 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #3: Tue Oct 10 13:28:56 CEST 2006 root@blah.XXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CORE-SMP i386 > > I know, 3ware has such good stuff, but those controller are not > certified for internet services in here (russia). So, i am pretty much > limited to Intel controllers. Is there intel controller which satisfied > all the > 1-6 conditions? I only need mirroring. > > -- > С уважением, > Артем Кучин > ООО "Ай Ти Легион" > www.itlegion.ru > +7 (495) 232-0338 I'll second Stefan with the Areca. I have an Areca 1120 8 port SATA2 controller. It hasn't given me an ounce of issues. It's got a nice CLI and web based interface as well as being SNMP manageable. Been running mine for 2 years without any issues at all. It also supports nifty things like online volume expansion and hot-swapping (if you have the hot-swap SATA drive bays) -Clay