Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread ray
At 12:31 AM 10/20/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: | - Original Message - | From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > I have been thinking about getting one. The guy I bought my 3ware 9500S-12 | > card has one he's getting ready to benchmark. I asked him to send me the | > details and I will pass

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have been thinking about getting one. The guy I bought my 3ware 9500S-12 card has one he's getting ready to benchmark. I asked him to send me the details and I will pass them along here if I get them. He did mention it supports SATA2 -

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Mike Tancsa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/spool/test bs=32k count=2 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 65536 bytes transferred in 7.587819 secs (86370011 bytes/sec) Interesting results there that's very similar to what I get here (

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread ray
At 11:04 AM 10/19/2005 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: | At 07:23 PM 18/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | >At 11:36 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: | >| Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend | >| 64Bit PCIX. | >| | >| Steve | > | >Hi Steve, | > | > I am using the 3W

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Steven Hartland
No problem I was initially very impressed with this card, great throughput ( after tweaking ), easy install and cheap; but then this problem hit. It gets a DMA timeout on one of the disks which it then drops from the RAID5 unfortunately it then gets the same error on another disk and does the sam

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:23 PM 18/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:36 PM 10/18/2005 +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: | Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend | 64Bit PCIX. | | Steve Hi Steve, I am using the 3Ware 9500S-12 on our servers and like it very much. It's very easy to setup,

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Tulio Guimarães da Silva
Wow! Nice to know, then. The only machine that uses a reasonable (not even high) amount of small writes is under RAID 1+0 (or 0+1, don´t remember). The other are mainly backup and department storage. I´m now warned. :P Thanks and sorry, Túlio G. da Silva Steven Hartland wrote: Unfortunatel

Re: crontab-smb probs

2005-10-19 Thread albi
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:07:47 -0700 (PDT) eirini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all fellow freebsd users :) hi, welcome :-) > first mrtg. mrtg works fine except one minor problem > with cron. > It will not start! I edit it with crontab -e and added > the line > */5 * * * * root /usr/local

crontab-smb probs

2005-10-19 Thread eirini
Hello to all fellow freebsd users :) I am new in unix and BSD and I have encoured some problems trying to "play" with all it's features. :) The problem I have is that I tried configuring mrtg in my freebsd 5.4 stable machine, as well as smb. And that's where my problems start! first mrtg. mrtg w

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Steven Hartland
Unfortunately the 1820A is the one I have and its major unstable under high transaction RAID5 ( rsyncing a LARGE amount of small files ). I've contacted highpoint but after an initial promising email that they have forwarded the problem to engineering they are now refusing to respond to email. Bee

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Tulio Guimarães da Silva
For price/benefit, I too recommend the HPTs, specially the 1820A. It´s not THE killer for speed, but it´s fairly stable, factory-supported on FBSD, has good management utils (including remote, via daemon) and is about half the price of its competitors. Besides, the "A" model has its own XOR pr

RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:18 AM 19/10/2005, Richard Tector wrote: I've got a system here running 6.0-RC1 with the 8 port PCI-X Areca card and a 7 disk RAID5 array of 320GB Western Digital disks. I have to agree with Mike here, they are indeed extremely fast and I can't say I've ever had any issues with it. Recommend

RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Richard Tector
I've got a system here running 6.0-RC1 with the 8 port PCI-X Areca card and a 7 disk RAID5 array of 320GB Western Digital disks. I have to agree with Mike here, they are indeed extremely fast and I can't say I've ever had any issues with it. Recommended. However, I haven't had much cause to use th