Freddie Cash wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rink Springer <r...@freebsd.org> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote:
I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID),
and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD. Any
comments on their quality/performance/reliability?
I have got an Areca ARC-1110 4x SATA2 PCI-X card in my server, and I'm
quite impressed with the performance; these cards do very well in terms
I/O operations per second and the driver has been rock solid for me. The
only downside is that they are quite expensive (but well worth it, IMO)
Compared to a 3Ware 9550SXU controller, these are cheap. The Areca is
only $500 (open-box) or $700 (new) on newegg.ca. The 3Ware cards are
over $1000, with the PCIe versions being over $1200 (which is what
started me on this journey -- hardware budgets are getting smaller and
smaller each year).
We've also tried the Areca cards with FreeBSD - the Areca
ARC-1680IX-12-2G PCIe x8 card to be precise. It's a SAS/SATA RAID
card. The performance was very impressive. MUCH better than the Dell
PERC4/5/6s we were used to. The drivers also seemed to be rock solid
(FreeBSD is even listed as a supported OS on the company's website).
The feature-set of the card itself is also very rich... The one we tried
had its own OOB management via serial port or dedicated 100mbps ethernet
jack. It supports endless combinations of RAID arrays, volumes, and
SMTP/SNMP alerts.
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