>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, [ISO-8859-1] João Carlos Mendes Luís Charles> wrote: >> What is the practical diference? Performance? Charles> I don't know how much of it to believe, since it is marketing Charles> material, but the Seagate white paper on their site claims Charles> that all the command-queueing stuff brings the performance Charles> very close to that of scsi. Charles> This last weekend I put together a box with a 3Ware SATA RAID Charles> controller and two of the Seagate drives. The controller is Charles> probably a bit of a bottleneck, but that sucker was still Charles> incredibly fast for the price (about $300 for the controller, Charles> $100 for for each of the two Seagate 160GB drives). At $2 Charles> per mirrored gigabyte, I'm not complaining. Does the 3ware support command queueing ... or is it purely a driver issue? Does FreeBSD support queueing? Does FreeBSD support queueing on all supported SATA controllers ... or just some? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
