Smartarray P400i and raid5?

[Rainer Duffner]

Am 14.03.2008 um 22:30 schrieb Johan Ström:

> Hello list!
>
> I'm about to get myself a DL360 G5 box with a SmartArray P400i  
> 256Mb BBWC. I found this thread in the archive:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-proliant/2007-August/ 
> 000297.html
>
> From the thread one person claims raid5 mode is not very good  
> without BBWC, but the original poster didn't seem to know if he had  
> BBWC or not, and the thread died, I'd like to know if this is the  
> case?
> Will raid5 be a bad option on 4x 136Gb 10krpm SAS drives? Main  
> workload is mysql/apache.
>
> I've already asked in stable- without a single negative response  
> (very nice!), but anyone had problems with the 360G5 and FreeBSD 7/ 
> ULE? Any hickups or anything (if you already responded in stable-  
> then ignore the question :)).
>
>


We run a lot of FreeBSD on HP, but currently there's only one system  
with FreeBSD7 and it has not been put into production.
All the other stuff is on various levels of RELENG_6.
We don't see problems.



cheers,
Rainer
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Rainer Duffner
CISSP, LPI, MCSE
rainer at ultra-secure.de