On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Ian Stokes-Rees <[email protected]> wrote: > > Diligent readers will recall the thread a few weeks ago on slow disk > performance with a PATA XRaid system from Apple (HFS, RAID5). Having
Possibly this should be a new thread, but... We have been using ZFS under FreeBSD for a while, and are very pleased, but are considering building a system with SAS drives, in the hope that they will be faster (any truth to that?). I am assuming that I should look for a non-RAID controller, but I can't find any SAS controllers that don't claim to do RAID and are on the FreeBSD compatibility list. I have always thought that using a RAID controller for a non-raid partition was a bad idea, since it limited ones ability to swap controllers. Is that prejudice justified? Is there a non-RAID controller that might work with FreeBSD? We already tried a Promise 4650 (an inexpensive RAID controller and it does not work (no surprise, it isn't on the HCL). Daniel Feenberg _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
