On Fri, March 10, 2006 1:01 am, Brian Szymanski wrote: > After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's > rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck > with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA > RAID card with utilities that let you manage while the OS is running > that folks have had good luck with? I've been happy with the megaraid > series on linux at my job, but I'm wondering if the management > utilities are there on freebsd, etc.
We've had great successes with the 3Ware Escalade line of RAID controllers. The 3DM2 web-based management tools are amazing, and I've heard good things about the CLI version. We've got FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, and 6.0 boxes (32-bit and 64-bit) running (or testing) the 7506-4LP (PATA), 9500S (SATA using bridge chips), and 9550SX (true SATA). Haven't run any speed benchmarks (we're more concerned with reliability, rebuild speed, and management tools) but the performance is a lot better than when we used LSI MegaRAID 150-6D cards (those things are crap, especially the management "tools"). The 7000 and 8000-series Escalade cards use the twe(4) driver in FreeBSD 4.11+, 9000 and 9500-series cards use the twa(4) driver in FreeBSD 5.2+, and the 9550-series cards use the twa(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.0+. I've also heard good things about the Areca RAID controllers, although we have not used any. ---- Freddie Cash [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
