Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:15 PM 02/11/2005, Michael VInce wrote: I have seen some network based SMP related performance problems vanish in 6.0 tests, admittedly I haven't done hard drive based tests but I wouldn't surprise me of performance drops on HDs in SMP on 6.0 are gone as well. Yes, I noticed that well.

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Michael VInce
I have seen some network based SMP related performance problems vanish in 6.0 tests, admittedly I haven't done hard drive based tests but I wouldn't surprise me of performance drops on HDs in SMP on 6.0 are gone as well. Mike Markus Kovero wrote: Dell's CERC sata raid thingy works fast for

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Michael VInce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:29 AM 11/2/2005 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: | At 05:47 AM 02/11/2005, Achim Patzner wrote: | >>For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which | >>use the 'aac' | >>Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. | > | >Did y

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread ray
At 07:29 AM 11/2/2005 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: | At 05:47 AM 02/11/2005, Achim Patzner wrote: | >>For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which | >>use the 'aac' | >>Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. | > | >Did you ever have to replace a fa

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 02.11.2005 um 13:29 schrieb Mike Tancsa: At 05:47 AM 02/11/2005, Achim Patzner wrote: For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which use the 'aac' Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. Did you ever have to replace a failed drive? You

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Eric Anderson
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 05:47 AM 02/11/2005, Achim Patzner wrote: For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which use the 'aac' Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. Did you ever have to replace a failed drive? You might try it, just to see i

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:47 AM 02/11/2005, Achim Patzner wrote: For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which use the 'aac' Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. Did you ever have to replace a failed drive? You might try it, just to see if you're still happy a

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Achim Patzner
For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which use the 'aac' Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. Did you ever have to replace a failed drive? You might try it, just to see if you're still happy afterwards. Achim _

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Markus Kovero
Dell's CERC sata raid thingy works fast for me but when I turn SMP on read performance drops 50%+ (raid1,raid5,raid10 and single volumes). I don't know if its aac problem or what. In leenox it works very well though. Yours Markus Kovero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:17 PM 11/2/2005 +1100, M

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread ray
At 09:17 PM 11/2/2005 +1100, Michael VInce wrote: | For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which use | the 'aac' | Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. | Dell supply them with a 64meg cache and are hardware raid, I have always | just install

Re: Benchmarks to run (was Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread ray
At 04:22 PM 11/1/2005 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: | At 07:23 PM 31/10/2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: | >On Sat, 29 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 | Fre

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-02 Thread Michael VInce
For SATA I have always been getting the Dell 750s (now 850s) which use the 'aac' Adaptec AdvancedRAID Controller driver, do 'man aac' for more details. Dell supply them with a 64meg cache and are hardware raid, I have always just installed FreeBSD on them and only 1 hard drive comes up as RAID