From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 10:47:30 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 E131316A408 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:47:28 +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 2050B13C491 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:47:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from clay@milos.co.za) Received: (qmail 86854 invoked by uid 89); 8 Feb 2007 10:43:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO claylaptop) (clay@milos.za.net@192.168.3.254) by bart.milos.co.za with ESMTPA; 8 Feb 2007 10:43:17 -0000 Message-ID: <00a701c74b6e$7c3e4550$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> From: "Clayton Milos" To: "Artem Kuchin" References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <20070208094620.GA9599@rink.nu> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:47:10 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 10:47:30 -0000 Hi, On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:42:39PM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote: > I need a raid controller for FBSD 6.2 which has the following options I can highly recommend the Areca family of SATA-II controllers. I have a ARC-1110 (4 poort RAID controller) with 4x 320GB Western Digital SATA-II drives attached to it in a RAID5 configuration. Simple dd(1)-ing gives around 100MB/sec read and 70MB/sec write performance. You can use sysutils/areca-cli to monitor it and update settings (I have never tried actually creating arrays there though). The controllers are a tad expensive, but once you have one, you won't reget it. Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But yet a far more terrible thing, to admit it." - Darth Traya I have 2 arryas of 4 WD320G drives each running RAID0 (I have backups I just need the speed). root@homer:/nas #> dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=65536 count=16384 16384+0 records in 16384+0 records out 1073741824 bytes transferred in 7.314186 secs (146802639 bytes/sec) -Clay