RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

From: Richard Tector (richardtector_at_thekeelecentre.com)
Date: 10/19/05

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    To: "'Mike Tancsa'" <mike@sentex.net>, "'Steven Hartland'" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:18:45 +0100

    I've got a system here running 6.0-RC1 with the 8 port PCI-X Areca card and
    a 7 disk RAID5 array of 320GB Western Digital disks. I have to agree with
    Mike here, they are indeed extremely fast and I can't say I've ever had any
    issues with it. Recommended.

    However, I haven't had much cause to use the CLI management utils, so I
    can't really comment there.

    Richard

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
    [mailto:owner-freebsd-performance@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa
    Sent: 19 October 2005 04:45
    To: Steven Hartland; freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
    Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

    At 06:36 PM 18/10/2005, Steven Hartland wrote:
    >Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend 64Bit PCIX.

    I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the
    fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD
    support and they are FAST

    http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm

             ---Mike

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