Very simple to back port to 3.7 :-)
On Jun 29, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Travis Gillitzer wrote:
I have this card running a 3 drive RAID5 array using 3 seagate 250GB
drives. Works great. Performance is very acceptable.
The other thing it supports is port multipliers, so it will support up
to 32 drives.
There isn't support for it in 3.7 release but Marco added support for
it and it should be in current.
On 6/28/05, Jason Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you want the closest you can get to SCSI without actually going
SCSI, try the LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 300-8X controller. It uses the
SATA-II spec, so you get 3.0gbps throughput, plus you have NCQ, which
can queue up to 32 commands (IIRC). It's still no U320 SCSI setup,
but
it's much much much better than PATA or even SATA-I, which is half
the
speed, and normally doesn't support NCQ at all.
Jason
On 6/28/05, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:28:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
What's the current box? I mean, I've got one that's doing about
that without breaking a sweat, and it's about 7 years old. A PII
(*any* PII) would be enough for this with enough RAM, and you can
spend the money you'd spend on the new box on drives and fans
instead.
The current box is an nforce2 board, Athlon XP1700 and 512 MB RAM.
Plenty of muscle in the processor-memory area. I meant to
underscore the part of my question about the *storage* subsystem
(mainly the disk controller).
The current box has no SATA, only on-board PATA. I'm kind of
thinking that I'd like to run hardware RAID5. SCSI is just too
expensive, and hardware RAID for PATA is getting harder to find, as
it gets ousted by SATA.
Based on the feedback I've received so far, I now think I want to
build a "little" (Soekris, mini-ITX, etc) OpenBSD box for my
firewall/gateway/NAT, and the current box will become just a
fileserver/source repository/backup server.
So, still, the question remains: what do folks recommend as "good"
hardware for hard disk controllers?
Thanks again!
Matt
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