Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:23:35 -0600 (MDT) From: "Jeremy D. Pavleck" <judge@Pavleck.Com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA Raid cards Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0310231018170.6874-100000@kashmir.thend.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.0.20031023094848.056f4c80@209.112.4.2>
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > 3ware is the way to go in my experience. They work really well under > FreeBSD, Windows and Linux. The FreeBSD drivers were originally written by > Mike Smith and Paul Saab is now maintaining them. They are not overly > fancy in FreeBSD but they do what they are designed to do. I have used > them extensively in RAID0, 1 and 10. RAID 5 is slow, but thats more RAID5 > than anything. Also RAID 1 seems to be very intelligent about reads, using > both drives to give better read performance as compared to the stats with > just one drive. Writes on RAID 1 are not penalized at all. > > ---Mike I second that. I love 3Ware cards for IDE RAID, especially if you plan to implement IDE RAID on a server who's data is considered even remotely critical. They do run more then Promise/HighPoint/etc cards though, the 8506-4LP (4 port SATA CARD - forgive me if model # is wrong) runs ~$350 US on NewEgg, but they are worth it. I agree with Mike about the RAID 5 performance, but the SATA cards seem to be a lot faster with it then the PATA ones. -Jeremy D. Pavleck > > At 09:42 AM 23/10/2003, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'm in a need of such a card, but I can't find out which cards are only > >doing raid under windows with specific drivers, and which cards are doing > >real hard raid. > > > >-- > >Mathieu Arnold > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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