Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-12-06 Thread Petri Helenius
Mike Tancsa wrote: 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,

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-03 Thread Mike Horwath
On Nov 2, 2005, at 4:47 AM, 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 stil

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-03 Thread Markus Kovero
Actually, read performance drop is still there under FreeBSD 6.0 RC1 Yours Markus Kovero Mike Tancsa wrote: 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

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

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

2005-11-01 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 13:22, 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 > FreeBSD s

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

2005-11-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
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 FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-s

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: I would for sure check pricing with Areca Will do. I think I have a new server we will be making in a few months and thinking will go with an Areca card card for it. ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-11-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:52 AM 01/11/2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: Which 3ware were they comparing ? The 9500SX was a little bit more than the 4 port ARECA here in Canada. It was the 9500SX.. Don't recall the models for the ARECA, but they compared it to two. I would fo

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-31 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 01.11.2005 um 01:23 schrieb Francisco Reyes: 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 Saw a review last night of the

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: Which 3ware were they comparing ? The 9500SX was a little bit more than the 4 port ARECA here in Canada. It was the 9500SX.. Don't recall the models for the ARECA, but they compared it to two. ___ freebsd-per

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
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 FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-s

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
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 FreeBSD support and they are FAST http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pcix-sata.htm Saw a review last night of the Areca

RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-29 Thread Calvin
-7740 (cell) -Original Message- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10/28/2005 9:24 PM To: Francisco Cc: FreeBSD Performance Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations At 12:11 AM 29/10/2005, Francisco wrote: >On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >&

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: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:11 AM 29/10/2005, Francisco wrote: 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

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
t way for nearly a month now so time to send it back and move to another manufacture. Steve / K - Original Message - From: "Tulio Guimarães da Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: 19 October 2005 14:29 Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations For price/ben

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Steven Hartland
email. Been that way for nearly a month now so time to send it back and move to another manufacture. Steve / K - Original Message - From: "Tulio Guimarães da Silva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: 19 October 2005 14:29 Subject: Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

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
+0 records in 2+0 records out 65536 bytes transferred in 7.587819 secs (86370011 bytes/sec) Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa Sent: 19 October 2005 04:45 To: Steven Hartland; freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject:

RE: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-19 Thread Richard Tector
ad much cause to use the CLI management utils, so I can't really comment there. Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa Sent: 19 October 2005 04:45 To: Steven Hartland; freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:36 PM 18/10/2005, Steven Hartland wrote: Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend 64Bit PCIX. 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.ar

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread ray
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, very fast and also directly supported by the defau

Re: SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread Peter Losher
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:36 pm, Steven Hartland wrote: > Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend > 64Bit PCIX. I personally would reccommend the HighPoint RocketRAID series (we use the 1820A here on a dual Opteron system running 5.4/amd64) We are using the HP-provided hp

SATA: RAID 5 controller recommendations

2005-10-18 Thread Steven Hartland
Anyone got any SATA RAID 5 controllers they can recommend 64Bit PCIX. Steve This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is pr