Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 22:03:52 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3ware IDE Raid. SCSI killer? Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000809220035.04baf4d0@mail.sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000809143033.nicole@unixgirl.com> References: <3990bd61.156080972@mail.sentex.net>
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At 02:30 PM 8/9/2000 -0700, Nicole Harrington. wrote:
>On 09-Aug-00 Mike Tancsa wrote:
> > On 8 Aug 2000 01:59:20 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.chat you wrote:
> >
> >>Just finished reading a whole bunch of info from 3ware's web
> >>site. They even claim to have obtained greater throughput than
> >>it is possible with SCS3. To be more specific they claim they
> >>achieved 100MB/S performance.
> >
> > They are not bad little boards for the money. I am using one in our proxy
> > server and just about to put one into our news server. The only thing
> > lacking at this point are any management FreeBSD management tools.
> > However, I am using them for RAID 0, so I dont really care at this point as
> > I just want speed. Hopefully 3mware will give msmith the info he needs in
> > order to create this program sometime in the future.
> >
>
> Why is it that there are no RAID 5 controlers for IDE?
There are external ones from a few companies that are presented as a SCSI
interface. I think ultimately in a server, many user environment, SCSI
will do better with the proper driver implementation.
---Mike
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