From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 23 15:40:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B43316A4DA for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from flpi102.sbcis.sbc.com (flpi102.sbcis.sbc.com [207.115.20.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF24643D60 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:39:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) X-ORBL: [66.136.206.1] Received: from maul.immure.com (adsl-66-136-206-1.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [66.136.206.1]) by flpi102.sbcis.sbc.com (8.13.7 out spool5000 dk/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k7NFdnjo021062 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:39:50 -0700 Received: from rancor.immure.com (rancor.immure.com [10.1.132.9]) by maul.immure.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7NFdk7u096761 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:39:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from rancor.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rancor.immure.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7NFdklI023049 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:39:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob@rancor.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by rancor.immure.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k7NFdkSl023048 for stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:39:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:39:46 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060823153946.GC22563@rancor.immure.com> References: <44EC0B9B.5020705@withagen.nl> <003f01c6c68d$64688e60$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <44EC27C7.8060906@withagen.nl> <20060823120146.GA21578@rancor.immure.com> <1156345518.15990.1.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1156345518.15990.1.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-immure-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-immure-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-immure-MailScanner-From: bob@immure.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bob Willcox List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:40:02 -0000 On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:05:18AM -0500, Greg Martin wrote: > I find it hard to believe nobody has mentioned 3ware, they are a bit > more expensive but you pay for top notch quality, stability... > > Their newer cards support PCI-X and SATA II /w hotswap. BTW, just as a data point, my Areca controller (ARC-1210) has on several occasions demonstrated it's ability to recover nicely from drive failures. One of my Maxtor disks has this bad habit of periodically hanging. Popping the drive out and putting it back in causes the controller to immediately notice it and begin an automatic background rebuild (its a RAID5 configuration w/four 500GB disks). The rebuild takes about three hours to complete (on an unloaded system). Bob > > > -Greg > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Bob Willcox Possessions increase to fill the space bob@immure.com available for their storage. Austin, TX -- Ryan