Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:25:34 -0500 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <4B79E5FE.7040200@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <201002161054.04696.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <cf9b1ee01002140653m7b20f60bv12b399d80bd92d9a@mail.gmail.com> <4B7980E0.1020907@langille.org> <4B79B6BB.1060809@comcast.net> <201002161054.04696.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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. The newest incarnations are better, but I >> would try to get an Areca. The ones we have tested have displayed >> fantastic >> performance. They are fairly expensive in comparison, though. If >> 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 > use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) Plus two SATA drives in a gmirror for the base OS, and one optical. I want a minimum of 8 slots.
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