Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

ray_at_redshift.com
Date: 10/20/05

  • Next message: Steven Hartland: "Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations" 
    Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:23:30 -0700
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org

    At 11:04 AM 10/19/2005 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
    | At 07:23 PM 18/10/2005, ray@redshift.com wrote:
    | >At 11:36 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
    | >| Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend
    | >| 64Bit PCIX.
    | >|
    | >| Steve
    | >
    | >Hi Steve,
    | >
    | > I am using the 3Ware 9500S-12 on our servers and like it very
    | > much. It's very
    | >easy to setup, very fast and also directly supported by the default
    | >Kernel. You
    |
    | Speaking of 3ware, has anyone tried out the new 9550SX ? Price seems
    | pretty good compared to the Areca and 3ware claims its much faster
    | than their previous generation cards.
    |
    | ---Mike

    Hi Mike,

      I have been thinking about getting one. The guy I bought my 3ware 9500S-12
    card has one he's getting ready to benchmark. I asked him to send me the
    details and I will pass them along here if I get them. He did mention it
    supports SATA2 - whatever that provides.

      It's supposed to be twice as fast on the speed from what I saw on 3ware's site.

      Speaking of the 9500S-12, I just did some benchmarks using that machine and
    MySQL reads/writes. As compared to a single SATA drive, the server was quite a
    bit faster when setup with the raid card and 4 10K Raptor drives. I have the
    benchmarks here if anyone is interested. I also just ordered 4 more 10K drives
    and I'm going to re-run everything in order to see how much of an improvement
    adding more drives has.

    Ray

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