RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-29 Thread Calvin
Francisco, You can buy it directly from us. Please let me know PCI-X or PCI-Express card you might need and how many ports, or the product number if you know. I will give you the quotation. Best regards, Calvin Chen Areca USA,Inc. www.areca.us (510) 438-0288 (w) (510) 991-9928 (Fax) (510) 676-77

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-29 Thread Francisco
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: I use the 3ware line (8xxx) and they are very stable, but not the fastest. For speed, check out the cards from Areca. Native FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm Where did you get your area controller

Re: Finding what's causing I/O

2005-10-29 Thread Francisco
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Shanker Balan wrote: See top(1): m Toggle the display between 'cpu' and 'io' modes. Thanks for the feedback. had not had a chace to read lists for weeks.. That does exactly what I need. My only complain is that once one switches to that mode that the default sor