Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:55:10 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Geoffrey Giesemann <geoffwa@cs.rmit.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd? Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0702081852050.28160@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <20070208233918.GA24428@cs.rmit.edu.au> References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <20070208094620.GA9599@rink.nu> <00a701c74b6e$7c3e4550$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> <20070208165224.GA35610@icarus.home.lan> <200702081902.l18J24Dm055927@lava.sentex.ca> <20070208195410.GA38036@icarus.home.lan> <Pine.OSX.4.64.0702081621280.28160@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20070208233918.GA24428@cs.rmit.edu.au>
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Geoffrey Giesemann wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 04:34:57PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: >> -They added a moving part (2-wire fan, no tach) to a "mission-critical" >> part. That seems real stupid. After the bearings die in 2-3 years, what >> happens to your card? Does it melt or just start acting weird? If the >> engineers didn't consider that, what other failure modes did their limited >> creativity miss? :) >> > > The fan does have a tachometer which you can monitor from the card BIOS > or using the cli binary. > > You can also disable the tachometer so you can swap the heatsink+fan for > the larger heatsink (w/o fan) that comes in the box. These were a few of the things that their pre-sales folks were not able to tell me... > You can find all of this out by *gasp* reading the manual. I did flip through it fairly quickly, but I'm not even sure that these features were available at the time I compared the Areca to the 3Ware. The best info I could find at the time about the fan was looking at the picture on their website - it showed a small heatsink+fan with two wires (no tach). I'm certainly not trying to push people away from the Areca cards - the more FreeBSD people out there using these the better. Next time we may buy some Arecas since I now am finding some positive feedback from the FreeBSD community. Charles > --Geoff > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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