Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:36 PM 18/10/2005, Steven Hartland wrote: Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend 64Bit PCIX. I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.ar

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread ray
At 11:36 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: | Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend | 64Bit PCIX. | | Steve Hi Steve, I am using the 3Ware 9500S-12 on our servers and like it very much. It's very easy to setup, very fast and also directly supported by the defau

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread Peter Losher
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:36 pm, Steven Hartland wrote: > Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend > 64Bit PCIX. I personally would reccommend the HighPoint RocketRAID series (we use the 1820A here on a dual Opteron system running 5.4/amd64) We are using the HP-provided hp

SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread Steven Hartland
Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend 64Bit PCIX. Steve This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is pr

SMP causes weird performance problems

2005-10-18 Thread Markus Kovero
Hi everyone, basically I've encountered very strange (for me atleast) performance problem while tuning Dell Poweredge 1800. I got 4-disk RAID5 set with harware controller made by Adaptec (works with aac) and everything is fine until I recompile kernel with SMP support. There are 2x Xeon CPU's wit