Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:51:58 -0800 From: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? Message-ID: <200702081451.58355.fcash@ocis.net> In-Reply-To: <45CBA15F.4090408@bit0.com> References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <E5797C35DEFA014A96C2171380F0EEE4016AE68C@bacchus.ThinkBurstMedia.local> <45CBA15F.4090408@bit0.com>
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On Thursday 08 February 2007 02:17 pm, Mike Andrews wrote: > Jaime Bozza wrote: > > Everyone has their reasons - I liked the RAID 6 feature, plus the OOB > > management of Areca, plus my history with 3ware wasn't good. :( > > For what it's worth, 3Ware's latest PCI-E cards (9650 series) now > support RAID 6. The updated twa driver that supports them hasn't yet > been merged into FreeBSD (see kern/106488 which I filed 2 months ago) > but you can download either the source or the binary for it from 3Ware > that works just fine. The updated 3dm2 for it did make it into the > Ports tree. > > Driver annoyances aside, my 9650SE is considerably faster than my 9500S Not all that surprising, since the 9500-series use PATA-133 chipsets with SATA-PATA bridges, and the 9550+ uses a native 3G SATA chipset. Even though the 9500s are listed as 1.5G SATA parts, you'll never get better than ATA-133 speeds out of them. We didn't realise that when we ordered our first pair of Escalade 9500S 4-port cards. Thankfully, just after they arrived and before we put in the mass-order, the 9550SX was released and we've standardised on them. -- Freddie Cash fcash@ocis.net
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