Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:05:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org> To: Philip Murray <me@philth.net.nz> Cc: <kam@salsolutions.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ATA RAID hardware reccomendation? Message-ID: <20010917110429.V7929-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> In-Reply-To: <002301c13f60$73ac5a50$0300a8c0@SPARLAK>
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Heres an article on an inexpensive terabyte storage array using the 3ware cards with linux, nice to see FreeBSD supports em also with raid5. Brian "Sonic" Whalen Success = Preparation + Opportunity On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Philip Murray wrote: > Hi Kam, > > I'm using a 3ware Escalade 7810 card with no problems at all. It's the > 8-port 64-bit version. I have 5 drives in a RAID5 with 1 hot-spare attached > to it. > > Not only does it have great drivers (works out of the box with FreeBSD), but > you can also get the monitoring/maintenance daemon for FreeBSD. > > I recommend them for anyone who needs a large amount of cheap storage (we've > got 320Gb). Also, I heard that Yahoo use the 3ware cards in their servers > also, so they must be good! :) > > Cheers > > > Though I think vinum is about the best way to implement mirroring two > disks > > under FreeBSD, I have since seen that I really should be investigating > > hardware based raid possibilities. I really need to consider how great it > > would be to have boot capability from the mirror (RAID1). > > > > What I really would like is something that is OS independant. I have read > > some of the information available at 3ware, Adaptec and Arcoide. The Arco > > card is only ATA66, has no cache RAM but is 100% OS independant. The > Adaptec > > 2400A is the only model that will work with FreeBSD based on information > > from their site -- that information is suspect since it does not > > specifically list whether drivers are necessary for xBSD as they are for > > Linux. The 3ware 6000 series two port ATA RAID (listed in BSD Mall at a > > steal price $144) site information states "A key portion of 3ware's > > technology is in the implementation of OS device drivers. 3ware's target > > operating environments are Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows > 2000 > > and Linux open-source, as well as support for popular Linux distributions > > such as Red Hat, SuSE and Turbolinux. Although the 3ware Escalade Storage > > Switch attaches to a cluster of ATA disk drives, it is installed with a > SCSI > > mini-port driver, enabling the switch to appear as a large SCSI disk drive > > to the outside world. This means that from the operating system's > > point-of-view, the 3ware Escalade Storage Switch is a SCSI device. " Of > > course it is listed as being Intel hardware platform compatible. I looked > at > > the Promise site but could not really get to any hard information that > said > > it in fact is OS independant. > > > > Does anyone know (for sure because you have tried and or are using it) of > an > > ATA RAID 0/1 solution that is OS independant other than Arco? > > > > Kam Salisbury > > Network Alchemist > > http://www.salsolutions.net/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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