Ryan Corder wrote:
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:13:20AM +0100, Michael wrote:
| quality of Adaptec cards. Any suggestions for a nice and not too
| expensive 32/64bit PCI hardware RAID card supporting RAID 5 and maybe
| even 6?
May I share a similar conversation that I had on this very mailing list,
except substitute Adaptec with 3ware?
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=122114552331372&w=2
Short story, if you need hardware RAID, buy an Areca. It's rock, rock, rock
solid. In fact, I just upgraded my box to 4.6, prior to the upgrade I was
running 4.3 on a degraded RAID1 -- one drive completely failed --for 5 weeks
without ever noticing (full disclosure, it was my own fault for not setting
up sensorsd to see the failure)!
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I can't speak as to how they compare with mfi but +1 for Areca. Had an
array and possibly a controller fail due to over heating and their
support was great. Emailed in and got a guy on the phone from Taiwan the
next day who talked me through steps to recover, for free.
Use the 4-port mostly for mirroring and 8-port for larger raid6 arrays.
Works with bio/sensors.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 19.7G 9.2G 9.5G 49% /
/dev/sd0d 9.8G 98.8M 9.3G 1% /var
/dev/sd0e 3.5T 3.0T 319G 91% /storage
# bioctl arc0
Volume Status Size Device
arc0 0 Online 3999999721472 sd0 RAID6
0 Online 1000204886016 0:0.0 noencl <ST31000340AS SD15>
1 Online 1000204886016 0:1.0 noencl <ST31000340AS SD15>
2 Online 1000204886016 0:2.0 noencl <ST31000340AS SD15>
3 Online 1000204886016 0:4.0 noencl <ST31000340AS SD15>
4 Online 1000204886016 0:5.0 noencl <ST31000340AS SD15>
5 Online 1000204886016 0:6.0 noencl <ST31000340AS SD15>
-noah
