From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 14:02:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D1016A420 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:02:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6DA343D58 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:02:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 63459 invoked by uid 89); 17 Feb 2006 14:02:55 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 63453, pid: 63455, t: 1.2062s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.86.2/m:33/d:1045 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@217.71.84.110) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 17 Feb 2006 14:02:54 -0000 Message-ID: <43F5D78E.60106@ultra-secure.de> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:02:54 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org References: <43F5CC7F.7010304@swehack.se> <43F5D124.8020402@ultra-secure.de> <43F5D4ED.4090603@swehack.se> In-Reply-To: <43F5D4ED.4090603@swehack.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Subject: Re: HP Proliant SATA RAID Cards for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:02:59 -0000 nocturnal wrote: > Hi > > 2 mirrored disks only. I heard on IRC that Areca was good, i will make > sure to ask the reseller if i can get an Areca card. > > I think they only sell 4-port and up. For non-raid5, 3Ware is good enough, I think. The larger Areca-cards can do RAID6, which gives more redundancy and a performance-boost during array-rebuilds. They also have an optional battery-backed-cache, which is lacking on smaller 3Ware cards. But this has got nothing to do with Proliants per-se ;-) I'd try to get a Proliant with SCSI and ZeroChannel RAID. cheers, Rainer