From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 2 12:02:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A3616A4BF for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:02:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1DD743FEC for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:02:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gaml@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 5785 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2003 19:02:27 -0000 Received: from dclient217-162-130-157.hispeed.ch (HELO ga) (217.162.130.157) by 0 with SMTP; 2 Oct 2003 19:02:27 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 21:02:24 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.00.6) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <5611481500.20031002210224@buz.ch> To: "Steve Ames" In-Reply-To: <03bf01c38847$257cb050$fc00030a@officescape.net> References: <03bf01c38847$257cb050$fc00030a@officescape.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New SATA Hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gabriel Ambuehl List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:02:33 -0000 Hi Steve Ames, you wrote. SA> G'day. SA> My company is putting together a system with lots of file SA> system on it to do disk based backup. SA> Under 5.1-CURRENT what's the best supported (and performing SA> optimally) SATA RAID controller (RAID 0, maybe 5)? What SA> manufacturer/model of SATA disks do you recommend for that SA> controller? SA> This is our first forray into the world of SATA and we want SA> to make it painless. I realize I've probably not supplied enough SA> info for a solid answer but perhaps for a starting place? 3Ware Escalade 8XXX (I think 8K series is SATA, you'll easily figure it out on their site) should be a safe bet from all I know. Also one of the most expensive ones, though. But seeing that RAID5 can save you a lot of money on big disk clusters, it might even end up being cheaper than el cheapo RAID1 stuff. Regards, Gabriel