At 12:39 PM 6/26/2005, Mike Maltese wrote: >Brett Glass wrote: >>I need to set up a FreeBSD server with two or more sets of >>mirrored drives. What is the best controller to use for this >>purpose? Note that I don't need striping or other RAID >>functions -- just mirroring, hopefully with hot swap capability. >>A system that could re-mirror a replacement drive with minimal >>impact on performance would be ideal. > >The 3ware 7000 series cards work great. Not sure about hot swap with IDE >though. I'd go with a 8000 series card and SATA drives for that.
I have heard (though I have no direct experience with it) that the 3Ware controllers bog the system down terribly when re-mirroring. Also, these controllers are probably optimized for RAID 5 rather than simple mirroring. Do you know if Promise or Adaptec has something that just mirrors? --Brett _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
