Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:26:10 GMT From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: fran@reyes.somos.net ("Francisco Reyes") Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware IDE Raid. SCSI killer? Message-ID: <39937053.332963616@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <SEN.965807905.707240080@news.sentex.net> References: <3990bd61.156080972@mail.sentex.net> <SEN.965807905.707240080@news.sentex.net>
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On 9 Aug 2000 03:58:25 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.chat you wrote: >On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 02:11:35 GMT, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >>They are not bad little boards for the money. I am using one in our proxy >>server and just about to put one into our news server. The only thing >>lacking at this point are any management FreeBSD management tools. > >How did you configure it? Controller Bios prior to booting? >Which model are you using. I am thinking of the 6400. Yes, controller BIOS. I am using a couple of 4 ports and now one two port on the 5000 series of cards. Speed is pretty good on RAID0 which I am using for a news spool and a proxy server. Hopefully there will be some management software soon. Once thats in place, and things are working OK, I will try it as a RAID1 device. same drives on the same machine: Quantun 7200RPM 15gig drives, some simple numbers... ------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU 300 18638 97.0 36388 73.0 11448 26.0 13001 98.6 46468 45.3 341.9 4.0 300 17829 93.8 18565 32.7 8792 20.3 12535 95.4 22437 21.2 200.6 2.2 First is RAID0, second is the same drive on the Intel PIIX4 ATA33 controller by itself. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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