From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 9 13:37:01 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 954F416A400 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:37:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from screwdriver@lxnt.info) Received: from mx1.caravan.ru (mx1.caravan.ru [217.23.130.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B5F13C474 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:37:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from screwdriver@lxnt.info) Received: from [217.23.131.8] (helo=[10.102.0.65]) by mx1.caravan.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HFVVC-000DPf-8c for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:09:22 +0300 Message-ID: <45CC72D4.9040104@lxnt.info> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:10:44 +0300 From: Alexander Sabourenkov User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070111) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <00ad01c74b65$79db1710$0c00a8c0@Artem> <20070208094620.GA9599@rink.nu> <00a701c74b6e$7c3e4550$fe03a8c0@claylaptop> <20070208165224.GA35610@icarus.home.lan> <004401c74c31$f8159160$0c00a8c0@Artem> In-Reply-To: <004401c74c31$f8159160$0c00a8c0@Artem> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:37:01 -0000 Artem Kuchin wrote: > hi! > > I am the original poster of this thread. I have read many interesting > reply during these two days. However, as i said in the original message > due to certification issues i am pretty limited to INTEL controllers and > i have not seen a single relevant reply about them. > This is interesting. Nobody uses Intel controllers on FreeBSD or > they just suck that much? If you have enough SATA ports and no need for fancy RAID levels, then my advice is to use gmirror. Hardware RAID1 buys you nothing in perfomance and reliability for a prolonged headache with drivers, bios insanity and monitoring+control tools. -- ./lxnt