From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 30 20:44:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 EB5FB16A41F for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:44:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: from cobra.acceleratedweb.net (cobra-gw.acceleratedweb.net [207.99.79.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8E0F543D4C for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:44:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Received: (qmail 52532 invoked by uid 110); 30 Jun 2005 20:44:47 -0000 Received: from ool-18ba9d5e.dyn.optonline.net (HELO win2kpc1) (simon%optinet.com@24.186.157.94) by cobra.acceleratedweb.net with SMTP; 30 Jun 2005 20:44:47 -0000 From: "Simon" To: "Bob Bomar" , "Danny Howard" Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:48:18 -0400 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2661) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;4) In-Reply-To: <42C45161.1070402@toldme.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20050630204448.8E0F543D4C@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" , "hardware@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: RAID Cards 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, 30 Jun 2005 20:44:49 -0000 Just because there is no monitoring tool available due to lack of support, doesn't mean the card itself is bad. I much prefer hardware implementation than software. True hardware RAID frees up a lot of CPU time if you have heavy IO and software just can't keep up if you utilize CPU intensive apps. The sad fact is most manufacturers don't receive enough FreeBSD demand to support it :-( I wish and keep waiting for this to change one day. I would be very happy then, but until then... -Simon On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:09:05 -0700, Danny Howard wrote: >Bob Bomar wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I am looking to build a new file server. I have used >> Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking >> at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any >> opinions on RAID cards? > >My 2c: RAID cards suck, because they are difficult to monitor consistently. > >For a lot of my systems, I've been deploying gmirror, which can mirror a >pair of drives, even at the system level. Works great, easy to monitor >through standard tools, no firmware / driver / kernel version / userland >conflicts and generally better performance. > >YMWV, >-danny > >-- >http://dannyman.toldme.com/ > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >