Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:39:14 -0400 From: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? Message-ID: <20060622174220.AEB6D44696@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <df9ac37c0606220834h3d122cc9n4804674d5ce7009b@mail.gmail.com>
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=20 ware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ? >=20 > On 6/21/06, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote: > > b. are ppl actually using/promoting SATA drives in a server=20 > environment? > > Or are we just talking about situations where you have=20 > a large number > > of spindles to work with? My one experience with an=20 > SATA configuration > > is that the server doesn't *feel* like its performing=20 > as well as my > > SCSI servers do ... under load ... >=20 > Yes. All the servers I'm installing this year will have SATA=20 > drives (and 3ware RAID controllers). The Western Digital=20 > Raptor drives are every bit as good as the SCSI drives I used to get. >=20 > Although it can be difficult to explain to the finance people=20 > why a 74GB drive is better than a 500GB drive at the same price. >=20 I know there have been a lot of mentioning of 3Ware and SCSI. But I went = on 3WARE website and there is not a single SCSI Adapter RAID or else! In that case, the only real players left for SCSI are Adaptec and LSI = (aside from HP controllers). Adaptec is out of question for FreeBSD due = to its performance, so really only LSI left! It seems SATA is the way to go on small to medium sized servers.
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