ATA Raid cards

[Jeremy D. Pavleck]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> 
> 3ware is the way to go in my experience.  They work really well under 
> FreeBSD, Windows and Linux. The FreeBSD drivers were originally written by 
> Mike Smith and Paul Saab is now maintaining them.  They are not overly 
> fancy in FreeBSD but they do what they are designed to do.  I have used 
> them extensively in RAID0, 1 and 10. RAID 5 is slow, but thats more RAID5 
> than anything. Also RAID 1 seems to be very intelligent about reads, using 
> both drives to give better read performance as compared to the stats with 
> just one drive.  Writes on RAID 1 are not penalized at all.
> 
>          ---Mike

I second that. I love 3Ware cards for IDE RAID, especially if you plan to
implement IDE RAID on a server who's data is considered even remotely
critical. They do run more then Promise/HighPoint/etc cards though, the
8506-4LP (4 port SATA CARD - forgive me if model # is wrong) runs ~$350 US
on NewEgg, but they are worth it.

 I agree with Mike about the RAID 5 performance, but the SATA cards seem
to be a lot faster with it then the PATA ones. 

 -Jeremy D. Pavleck


> 
> At 09:42 AM 23/10/2003, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm in a need of such a card, but I can't find out which cards are only
> >doing raid under windows with specific drivers, and which cards are doing
> >real hard raid.
> >
> >--
> >Mathieu Arnold
> 
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