HW RAID advice requested

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 02:06:07PM +0200, Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Need some advice on currently available, FreeBSD compatible SATA or
> SATA/SAS controllers which can do hardware raid (depending on thruput
> we will have to choose between RAID-1 and RAID-5 later).  I see the
> Adaptec RAID controllers (both SATA and SAS) are supported by the aac
> driver but looking thru the FreeBSD mail archives I see no comparison
> information with other brands such as 3ware.
> 
> Ths machine will run FreeBSD 7 and use ZFS (the server will not go
> live until 2008 so I hope ZFS may be production quality in time).
> 
> Any suggestions?  Boads to buy definitively or to avoid at all?
> 
> Thanks in advance!

I am partial to HP hardware, it is what we use at work and I haven't really
looked at other controllers lately. The Pxxx SmartArray controllers I have
used so far (P400i, P600, P800) with 10K 2.5" and 15k 2.5" drives have
left so far a good impression on me. And 6.2-Rel cciss driver does support
them. I might take a server tomorrow and finally do some more testing
under FreeBSD (we unfortunatly use mostly linux) including speed as I got one
server right now with a P400i internal attached to 4x72GB 10k 2.5" and
a P800 with 25x72GB 15K 2.5" external.

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Regards, Ulf.

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