Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:53:55 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>, Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net>, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <201002161054.04696.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4B79B6BB.1060809@comcast.net> References: <cf9b1ee01002140653m7b20f60bv12b399d80bd92d9a@mail.gmail.com> <4B7980E0.1020907@langille.org> <4B79B6BB.1060809@comcast.net>
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--nextPart2200761.ki4r8joN1f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Steve Polyack wrote: > I'm not sure about that particular card, but we've never seen that > great of performance out of the LSI MegaRAID cards that ship with > Dell servers as the PERC. =A0The newest incarnations are better, but I > would try to get an Areca. =A0The ones we have tested have displayed > fantastic > performance. =A0They are fairly expensive in comparison, though. =A0If > you're using ZFS in place of the RAID on the LSI MegaRAID, I'd > instead recommend other simpler SAS cards which are known to have > good driver support. Why even bother with the LSI card at all? That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want to=20 use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2200761.ki4r8joN1f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLeeWk5ZPcIHs/zowRAvzBAJsH9V9Akc2JguiPMkd4H1wUmeW+aQCgpm4f G2JplYbdC9cdFdJk4c6FKwI= =ZYTn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2200761.ki4r8joN1f--
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