RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

From: Mike Tancsa (mike_at_sentex.net)
Date: 10/19/05

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    Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:28:51 -0400
To: killing@multiplay.co.uk, <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org>

    At 07:18 AM 19/10/2005, Richard Tector wrote:
    >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.

    They are adequate. Not as nice as the 3dm program, but good enough
    for monitoring / checking.

    Copyright (c) 2004 Areca, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
    Areca CLI, Version: 1.3( FreeBSD )

    Controllers List
    ----------------------------------------
    Controller1: ARC-1110
    Current Controller: Controller1
    ----------------------------------------

    CMD Description
    ==========================================================
    main Show Command Categories.
    set General Settings.
    rsf RaidSet Functions.
    vsf VolumeSet Functions.
    disk Physical Drive Functions.
    sys System Functions.
    event Event Functions.
    hw Hardware Monitor Information.
    exit Exit CLI.
    ==========================================================
    Command Format: <CMD> [Sub-Command] [Parameters].
    Note: Use <CMD> -h or -help to get details.

    CLI> hw info
    The Hardware Monitor Information
    ===========================================
    Fan#1 Speed (RPM) : 2970
    HDD #1 Temp. : 33
    HDD #2 Temp. : 34
    HDD #3 Temp. : 33
    HDD #4 Temp. : 34
    ===========================================
    GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.

    CLI> vsf info
      # Name Raid# Level Capacity
    Ch/Id/Lun State
    ===============================================================================
      1 Volume Set # 00 1 Raid5 750.0GB 00/00/00 Normal
    ===============================================================================
    GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.

    CLI>

    CLI> event info
    Date-Time Device Event Type
    ===============================================================================
    2005-10-3 22:39:56 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-9-7 4:2:4 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-8-3 16:52:0 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-8-3 15:48:4 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-8-3 15:38:49 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-8-3 15:36:2 IDE Channel # 4 Device Inserted
    2005-8-3 15:35:55 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-8-3 15:34:6 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-8-3 15:30:5 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-8-3 15:28:57 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-8-3 15:25:3 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-8-3 15:24:19 IDE Channel # 4 Device Inserted
    2005-8-3 15:24:11 IDE Channel # 3 Device Inserted
    2005-8-3 15:24:8 IDE Channel # 3 Device Removed
    2005-8-3 15:23:22 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-7-15 14:45:9 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On
    2005-7-15 11:45:33 H/W MONITOR Raid Powered On

    # diskinfo -t da0
    da0
             512 # sectorsize
             749999751168 # mediasize in bytes (698G)
             1464843264 # mediasize in sectors
             91182 # Cylinders according to firmware.
             255 # Heads according to firmware.
             63 # Sectors according to firmware.

    Seek times:
             Full stroke: 250 iter in 1.309230 sec = 5.237 msec
             Half stroke: 250 iter in 3.694140 sec = 14.777 msec
             Quarter stroke: 500 iter in 2.018954 sec = 4.038 msec
             Short forward: 400 iter in 0.805780 sec = 2.014 msec
             Short backward: 400 iter in 1.694952 sec = 4.237 msec
             Seq outer: 2048 iter in 0.205310 sec = 0.100 msec
             Seq inner: 2048 iter in 0.200980 sec = 0.098 msec
    Transfer rates:
             outside: 102400 kbytes in 1.019945 sec = 100398 kbytes/sec
             middle: 102400 kbytes in 1.300898 sec = 78715 kbytes/sec
             inside: 102400 kbytes in 1.185229 sec = 86397 kbytes/sec

    # dd if=/dev/zero of=/spool/test bs=32k count=20000
    20000+0 records in
    20000+0 records out
    655360000 bytes transferred in 7.587819 secs (86370011 bytes/sec)

    >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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