Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:28:20 -0800 (PST) From: WWW <essenz@essenz.com> To: Bruce Campbell <bruce@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: seeking recommendation on ATA RAID controller Message-ID: <20030129162430.P79695-100000@beck.quonix.net> In-Reply-To: <1043874694.3e384386371b7@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca>
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Bruce, I have used the Adaptec 2400A Raid card with FreeBSD, and have never had any problems. I never used 3ware because I was always weary of the past problems with firmware of certain IDE hard drives. Though, the new 3ware Serial-ATA Raid cards sound very good... Hopefully, some FreeBSD users will venture into those cards. But I think with 3ware you always have to be carefull with hard drive compatibility. I'd stick with Adaptec products... john@essenz.com On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > I plan to buy 4 ATA RAID controllers, for use in 4 separate > FreeBSD 4.7 systems, and am currently examining: > > - Adaptec 2400A ATA-100 > - Promise SuperTrak SX6000 > - 3ware Escalade 7500-4LP > > I need the one that causes no headaches. > > If anyone has particularly good or bad experience, I would like to > hear about it. I have not bought the drives yet, but will need > 4 drives of roughly 160 - 200GB, on each controller. > > total i/o will be relatively light, 2 megabytes per second > maybe, not sustained, mostly sequential. > > Thanks for any experience and wisdom anyone has to share. > > -- > Bruce Campbell > Engineering Computing > CPH-2374B > University of Waterloo > (519)888-4567 ext 5889 > > ---------------------------------------- > This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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