Here at work, we�re successfully using a Highpoint 1820A S-ATA RAID controller on a HP ML110 server, this card is (at least apparently) fully supported by FreeBSD by Highpoint itself, and works fine. There even seems to be some drivers enhancements in version 5.4-RELEASE.
One thing to note is that this 1820A supports up to 8 disks in RAID modes 0,1,5, and JBOD, and (important) it�s 100MHz PCI-X, but there are simpler, standard-PCI versions for up to 4 disks. As for performance, we haven�t done yet any serious testing, but rough calculations from common file transfers indicate something between 60MB/s and 80 MB/s on RAID 5.
As for Promise controllers, we�re not being much happy with the S150 SX4, and we�ve got some trouble with integrated Promise chips, but these were last tested on FreeBSD 5.2.1. I don�t remember the exact chip models, but they were from Asus P4P800 and P4C800. I didn�t test�em after that, but there seems to have been various enhancements for pst driver on FreeBSD 5.3.
It�s not quite the platform you desire (Intel P4), but I hope this can add something. ;) Cheers,
Tulio
Both 3ware boards are on similar based hardware: Tyan S5120AGNF (tomcat i915g), PIV 3 ghz-HT disabled, 2GB of RAM. Mylex board is installed on an old PIII 800mhz, 768MB of RAM.
I've run bonnie on the 3 servers, theese are the results:
*3Ware 7506 4LP (ATA-RAID 5):
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
100 26773 21.0 25696 7.0 24083 4.4 106501 98.1 872573 98.5
86894.2 93.9
*3Ware 9500s (SATA-RAID 5):
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
100 35912 27.1 37985 7.2 42063 6.6 115488 98.1 2237713
99.2 134675.6 98.5
*Mylex AcceleRAID 160 (SCSI-RAID 5):
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
100 9528 27.3 9839 7.8 11813 12.9 36905 98.9 169363 99.1
25536.9 98.3
None of theese servers are very busy, and the tests where performed under normal load. 3Ware 9500s performs very well, but be carefull, acpi enabled hangs the server every day, and disabling it will hang it every 10 :(
If you're interested about ATA/SATA RAID you should try to get some information on promise boards too. Hope someone in the list can help.
2005/5/3, Toll, Eric <etoll at vipstructures.com>:
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> > Franco Bruno Borghesi
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:05 AM
> > To: Toll, Eric
> > Cc: freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Another BIOS RAID or host based RAID question
> >
> > Yes, I am using 3 servers with hardware raid:
> >
> > a)3ware 7500 with 4 ATA disks (1 spare) WD 160 GB in RAID 5,
> > works great.
> > b)Mylex AcceleRAID 160 with 3 SCSI 8 GB Quantum disks, RAID
> > 5, works great.
> > c)3ware 9600s with 4 SATA 150 disks (1 spare) WD 160 GB in
> > RAID 5. Many problems, occasional reboots, couldn't get any
> > help from the lists.
> >
> > The 3ware 7500 board comes in severall flavours, you could
> > try a two channel model, though the only utility you have is
> > tw_cli, it's console based, no alarms. It's also an ATA controller :(
> >
> > Hope this helps.
>
> Yes it does, I just did a quick search of 3ware storage adapters on
> Insight and
> the 8xxx and 9xxx series are available.
> They are all 64 Bit PCI, which leads me to the mainboard. I wanted to get
> an
> Asus or Abit MB with an (single) AMD processor (64 perhaps) with 1Gb of
> RAM.
>
> What mainboard are your 3ware cards plugged into?
>
> I want to build a new BSD server, with ATA raid or SATA raid, AMD 64 chip
> (not
> using 64bit BSD), MB and nice P/S and case. Can anyone recommend a good
> shopping
> list?
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
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