Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:28:44 -0800 From: Jeff Behl <jeff@expertcity.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID alternatives Message-ID: <3E2D9F6C.7050600@expertcity.com> In-Reply-To: <20030121102517.B10617@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20030121102517.B10617@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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We've been using a 3ware 7500 for months in a raid5 configuration; works great... Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 04:15:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > >> - Hardware RAID (more expensive, but less hassle and possibly higher >> performance). The problem here is that IDE RAID controllers don't >> seem to support RAID 4 or 5; they only support RAID 0, which is >> pointless on its own; RAID 1, which is horribly wasteful; and JBOD, >> which is just a fancy name for disk concatenation, and is even more >> pointless than RAID 0. The exception seems to be the 3ware 7500 >> series - which FreeBSD doesn't seem to support. I'd be happy to be >> contradicted :) > > > FreeBSD definatly support the 3ware 7000 series and I'm fairly sure it > support the newer ones as well. 3Ware seems to have done the right > thing and maintained the API and device IDs across revs so the driver > doesn't need changes. > > -- Brooks > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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