Re: SATA RAID card suggestions?
On 2011-10-13, Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote: On 13 October 2011 17:45, Timothy Baldock t...@entropy.me.uk wrote: I'd recommend the Areca cards, they are expensive but worth the money IMO I see, and I agree, but have in mind I pay around 100% taxes :(. How important is raid5? The simpler raid1 mpi(4) / mpii(4) cards are much cheaper, and raid1 is easier to get your data out of when the card blows up... Don't get hung up on looking for a controller with the word sata in the name, the sas controllers are generally fine with sata drives, there are various HP/Dell/LSI SAS controllers that will work fine, some of which are quite easily ebay'able. Make sure you get cables, they don't always come with the card (even new ones).
Re: SATA RAID card suggestions?
On 14 October 2011 05:25, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2011-10-13, Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote: On 13 October 2011 17:45, Timothy Baldock t...@entropy.me.uk wrote: I'd recommend the Areca cards, they are expensive but worth the money IMO I see, and I agree, but have in mind I pay around 100% taxes :(. How important is raid5? The simpler raid1 mpi(4) / mpii(4) cards are much cheaper, and raid1 is easier to get your data out of when the card blows up... Starting to get less important, I wanted to have a 4x1.5tb storage using raid5, but with the money I'd spent I can get a cheaper raid1 and more disks, or just more disks and forget about raid. The price I'd pay for an Areca gives me more 3x1.5tb disks. Don't get hung up on looking for a controller with the word sata in the name, the sas controllers are generally fine with sata drives, there are various HP/Dell/LSI SAS controllers that will work fine, some of which are quite easily ebay'able. I had a look on the lsi megaraid 83XX, they're more affordable, I'll see what I can get. Make sure you get cables, they don't always come with the card (even new ones). Thanks
Re: SATA RAID card suggestions?
On 10 October 2011 22:57, Richard Johnson rd...@river.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:50:45 -0700, Ryan Corder wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 02:16:47PM -0600, Richard Johnson wrote: I've had great success with the Areca ARC-1210. http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm Wups, I was apparently too tired last night to find the Areca cards, though I could have sworn I'd studied the arc(4) man page. That is, until I reviewed it again this evening after receiving your response. Thanks for getting me pointed in the right direction. Now to find one in stock. Did you find another alternative ? I like this areca cards, but they are way to expensive for me, if you find a cheaper solution please let me know. I need a pci-e raid 5 card.
Re: SATA RAID card suggestions?
I'd recommend the Areca cards, they are expensive but worth the money IMO On 13 Oct 2011, at 21:23, Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote: On 10 October 2011 22:57, Richard Johnson rd...@river.com wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:50:45 -0700, Ryan Corder wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 02:16:47PM -0600, Richard Johnson wrote: I've had great success with the Areca ARC-1210. http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm Wups, I was apparently too tired last night to find the Areca cards, though I could have sworn I'd studied the arc(4) man page. That is, until I reviewed it again this evening after receiving your response. Thanks for getting me pointed in the right direction. Now to find one in stock. Did you find another alternative ? I like this areca cards, but they are way to expensive for me, if you find a cheaper solution please let me know. I need a pci-e raid 5 card.
Re: SATA RAID card suggestions?
On 13 October 2011 17:45, Timothy Baldock t...@entropy.me.uk wrote: I'd recommend the Areca cards, they are expensive but worth the money IMO I see, and I agree, but have in mind I pay around 100% taxes :(.
SATA RAID card suggestions?
I'm looking to possibly use a SATA RAID card instead of softraid(4) on a new amd64 PCIx or PCI express machine build. I'm tired of rebooting into the bios for other machines with mfi(4). So I want to build something manageable via bio(4), bioctl(4), and maybe sensorsd(8). That'll either be softraid, or some kind of supported SATA RAID card. However, most of the card models listed in the man pages for ami(4), ciss(4), ips(4), and arc(4) are older discontinued SCSI and PCI beasts. ami(4) also is limited to 2TB logical volumes. Given the whole go dark and produce driver blobs only trend in the RAID controller business, I'm not getting my hopes up too much for a hardware SATA RAID option, and will certainly be OK with softraid(4). However, if you have any ideas, I'd appreciate suggestions about manufacturers to look at for SATA RAID cards that might provide for drive status and maintenance commands via bio(4) and bioctl(4) in OpenBSD. Richard
Re: SATA RAID card suggestions?
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 02:16:47PM -0600, Richard Johnson wrote: | I'm looking to possibly use a SATA RAID card instead of softraid(4) on a | new amd64 PCIx or PCI express machine build. | | I'm tired of rebooting into the bios for other machines with mfi(4). So I | want to build something manageable via bio(4), bioctl(4), and maybe | sensorsd(8). That'll either be softraid, or some kind of supported SATA | RAID card. | | However, most of the card models listed in the man pages for ami(4), | ciss(4), ips(4), and arc(4) are older discontinued SCSI and PCI beasts. | ami(4) also is limited to 2TB logical volumes. I've had great success with the Areca ARC-1210. http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm -- Ryan Corder || () ASCII ribbon campaign ryanc at greengrey.org || /\ against HTML email http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xBEE37813 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
Re: SATA RAID card suggestions?
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:50:45 -0700, Ryan Corder wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 02:16:47PM -0600, Richard Johnson wrote: I've had great success with the Areca ARC-1210. http://www.areca.com.tw/products/pcie.htm Wups, I was apparently too tired last night to find the Areca cards, though I could have sworn I'd studied the arc(4) man page. That is, until I reviewed it again this evening after receiving your response. Thanks for getting me pointed in the right direction. Now to find one in stock. Richard
