From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 17:42:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44E7F16A481 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:42:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hakmi@rogers.com) Received: from smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEB6D44696 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:42:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hakmi@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 63958 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2006 17:39:05 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:From:To:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Mailer:In-Reply-To:X-MimeOLE:Thread-Index; b=d/Gn99uVX/+t8rwrlQNZ7j0QB+xQ/VoK3HL5kDWP2TYR6sjJz+9xC9HNvC2thTQVwdLf7LgjHOmkNIKW/0tapEgoXPwlxb5b9hRe4NlXVenMiiPnqGPjoa7ZYC2v8Vv4ZQ+Q+7Z5/73i0iQcruzPAgbVuB3c9o0/q3TSBgxKCkI= ; Received: from unknown (HELO tamouh) (hakmi@rogers.com@70.27.160.99 with login) by smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Jun 2006 17:39:05 -0000 From: "Tamouh H." To: Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:39:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Thread-Index: AcaWEml8XEUgwFsEQnq6UgboN6IYZAAD8zaQ Message-Id: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:42:21 -0000 =20 ware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? >=20 > On 6/21/06, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > b. are ppl actually using/promoting SATA drives in a server=20 > environment? > > Or are we just talking about situations where you have=20 > a large number > > of spindles to work with? My one experience with an=20 > SATA configuration > > is that the server doesn't *feel* like its performing=20 > as well as my > > SCSI servers do ... under load ... >=20 > Yes. All the servers I'm installing this year will have SATA=20 > drives (and 3ware RAID controllers). The Western Digital=20 > Raptor drives are every bit as good as the SCSI drives I used to get. >=20 > Although it can be difficult to explain to the finance people=20 > why a 74GB drive is better than a 500GB drive at the same price. >=20 I know there have been a lot of mentioning of 3Ware and SCSI. But I went = on 3WARE website and there is not a single SCSI Adapter RAID or else! In that case, the only real players left for SCSI are Adaptec and LSI = (aside from HP controllers). Adaptec is out of question for FreeBSD due = to its performance, so really only LSI left! It seems SATA is the way to go on small to medium sized servers.