From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 9 16:50:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D044E16A400 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 16:50:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FCD113C455 for ; Wed, 9 May 2007 16:50:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfischer@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so314125ugh for ; Wed, 09 May 2007 09:50:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FmH3HwAvscNOxBNBlEkaZ9RM8Tnc1JRxqJO0G3uwCRqqM0Tn9NfwJ6Q6eocU3yer/dOr/Qg1d7VgwOqdem5E2qFXltbGtXhp9IdqTf2yM/XIMWc7RtFvDgkP+90h+MLnuyfyJFcKVJFd0tplUNwrlAySSsq8O4QqM/DN6sHu//8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VmavL/8L9487EDHAODN7Aeu/XurZdUbjGKQUOOun2DFfTGRVLCc8fD+ngpN/RJi7spWa8sCtu6uvQ1AAnAm5D4sM6aLWEYd1h0dhxmXTVYLBJMjiSw8sLWjyIVF9ovRx75Z3J6XEzAjxj+3pWZY+9/S7dmMgJ7U8N27SFM51m6c= Received: by 10.82.146.14 with SMTP id t14mr1404381bud.1178729456823; Wed, 09 May 2007 09:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.179.4 with HTTP; Wed, 9 May 2007 09:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6651c95f0705090950l11d2bf52g86a7d2345b812cab@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 18:50:56 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" To: "Gary D. Margiotta" In-Reply-To: <20070509111039.C17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> <6651c95f0705090438t26f425c3sd75e0eea26057752@mail.gmail.com> <20070509111039.C17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> Cc: "Rick C. Petty" , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:50:58 -0000 Hi Gary, Thanks for this information - looks like I'm going to be investing in one of these cards as well :-)... best regards, tom On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > Hi Gary, > > > > Thanks for your comments - I've found a Highpoint 1640 card at an > > interesting price - 4 ports, so I have room to expand in the future. Any > > gotchas with this card as opposed to the 1542 that you've recommended? > > No gotcha's at all. I have a bunch of 1640's sitting on the shelf that I > just got a good deal on, and I've already rolled a few of them out. They > work pretty well for my needs, light e-mail, webserver, file server, etc. > > I will mention this - in my experience, the CPU utilization on a Windows > system will be much higher comparitively than a BSD system running these > cards. I have a couple windows file servers which hit about 6MB/s file > transfers at about 40% CPU utilization, meanwhile similarly configured BSD > systems will push 8-9MB/s at about 20-30% utilization. Now, these are > older systems (AMD Athlons at around 1Ghz), but it is nice to see how well > the BSD systems work, especially on older hardware. > > -Gary > > > > best regards, > > > > tom > > > > On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 8 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both > >> >> Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for > >> me. Would > >> >> anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would > >> be > >> >> well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just > >> something > >> >> with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) > >> supported by > >> >> FreeBSD (and Windows). > >> > > >> > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or > >> > similar would work: > >> > > >> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 > >> > >> Go for a Highpoint card, something like the 1542, I've got a bunch in > >> both windows and freebsd machines, and they work rather well. They're not > >> the speediest cards, but I've not had a DOA or a failure yet with them, > >> and they just work. > >> > >> I'd personally stay away from the Sil chipsets, the newer ones aren't as > >> bad, but I've seen a lot of not-nice things about those cards from Soren > >> in the past, and being that he's the ATA maintainer, I'd take his advice > >> pretty seriously. > >> > >> -Gary > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >