--On 25 November 2005 18:06 -0500, Alex Kirk wrote:
I just picked up three Maxtor 200GB UltraATA/133 drives that I'd like to use in a RAID-5 configuration with my OpenBSD web/mail server.
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http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware, and unless I'm missing something, there's something of a gap between ATA/100 and SATA/150 there (for example, the MegaRAID 150-4/6 and the MegaRAID i4).
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I apologize if this question has already been answered, but what would be my best bet for building a RAID-5 with these disks under OpenBSD?
i4 (or dell cerc-pata, which is the same thing and possibly easier to find on ebay if that's where you're buying). Have a look at the sustained transfer rate of the drives, I'll be very surprised if it's enough to max out 100MB/sec, and with 3 disks on an i4 you won't need to share channels.
