On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 02:26:34PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote:
Hi,
Last Friday I ranted:
In this case, time IS money, so that's why I'm trying to convince my
client to better spend that money (and my time) on simply buying a
supported hardware RAID controller, which really is a win-win situation
for both my client and myself. However, somehow I've not yet been able
to drive that argument home, so who knows...:/
Well, eureka, I did it! :)
That is... I managed to convince the client to go hardware RAID. ;)
They have a preference for the following controller: Promise FAST Trak
S150TX4
But..
As far as I gather from the supported hardware list (fbsd 5.3, amd-64)
at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/hardware-amd64.html#DISK
It looks like this controller is not supported. :(
To further compound matters, checking the docs on the controller
suggests that, again, this is basically a software RAID solution (no
CPU, no on-board memory, and a 66MHz PCI 2.2 32-bit interface): nice to
complement their otherwise blazingly fast 64-bit AMD machine, duh! :(((
Oh well, again I made a very strong suggestion to buy the Adaptec 2200s
U320 SCSI RAID controller, but we'll see... :)
Meanwhile, does anyone know of a good hardware SATA RAID controller
capable of supporting RAID 10, and which is properly supported by
FreeBSD 5.3 (amd64)? Any experiences? Any do's and dont's?
Hi,
I'am runnig some 3ware Storage Controllers on 5.2.1 and
5.3 on i386 Hardware. They work well.
I use a 3ware 3W-8500-8 disk controller with 4 disks in Raid 5 Mode
and some 3ware 3W-7006-2 disk controller with 2 disks in Raid 1 Mode.
So far no problems with them. They react well on HotSwaps of defectiv
disks (had one diskfailure allready).
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