Hi again, On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:33:26AM -0800, David Kirchner wrote: > On 1/13/06, Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Areca is higher in price as they only come in 4 ports and > > above. Go with the 3ware 8006 2 port. If you are looking for > > stability and reliability under FreeBSD, its the way to go. I have > > recovered from many failed disks with the 3ware under FreeBSD, Linux > > and Windows and it works and works well. > > Seconded (or n'd). We have dozens of 3ware cards in service and > they've all been great. From 8006 all the way to 9500S. Other than the > occasional problem with >2TB on FreeBSD the cards and the drivers > themselves appear absolutely solid.
JFYI / JFTR: The 8000 series of 3ware has a GRAPHICAL BIOS and IS NOT USABLE with serieal-redirection. We have some troubles with weak drives and cannot manage the controller using serial redirection interface of the server. 3dm2 is a very nice webfrontend for the controller, but if your system resides on it, you cannot swap/reconfigure/destroy/build RAIDs with it. (I think about setting up a USB-stick with a "FixIt" and some daemons as a fallback.) Another thing: we've RAID1 with this controller and the RAID degraded due to a timeout or another error of drive0. Rebuilding the RAID with this disk is extremly slow, the write-access to the RAID is about 1.5MB/sec. After some days of rebuilding it breaks without any notice in error-log or in kernel messages. Unit0 is "degraded on drive0", but the status for drive0 is "OK" even with drive1. Very weird. Regards Raphael Becker _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
