atom feed57 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-amd64suggestions for SATA RAID cards
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Willem Jan WithagenAug 23, 2006 8:01 am 
Steven HartlandAug 23, 2006 8:23 am 
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Steven HartlandAug 23, 2006 10:55 am 
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Dan LangilleAug 28, 2006 10:18 pm 
Barkley VowkAug 29, 2006 8:10 pm 
Albert ChinAug 31, 2006 7:23 pm 
Jo RhettSep 7, 2006 6:47 pm 
Fabian WenkSep 7, 2006 9:07 pm 
Steven HartlandSep 7, 2006 9:24 pm 
Jo RhettSep 7, 2006 10:06 pm 
Steven HartlandSep 8, 2006 9:14 am 
Gibson, Jasen (GE Indust, ConsInd, consultant)Sep 8, 2006 12:22 pm 
Jo RhettSep 8, 2006 4:16 pm 
Mark KirkwoodSep 9, 2006 1:00 am 
Steven HartlandSep 9, 2006 6:34 am 
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Chris HedleyOct 2, 2006 10:02 am 
Gibson, Jasen (GE Indust, ConsInd, consultant)Oct 4, 2006 6:12 am 
Steven HartlandOct 4, 2006 6:58 am 
Chris HedleyOct 4, 2006 7:37 am 
Pete FrenchOct 4, 2006 7:49 am 
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Matthew D. FullerOct 4, 2006 7:59 am 
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Chris BeHannaOct 4, 2006 10:00 am 
Subject:suggestions for SATA RAID cards
From:Steven Hartland (kill@multiplay.co.uk)
Date:Sep 8, 2006 9:14:02 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-amd64

Jo Rhett wrote:

On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:

I did have a little bother getting through to the dev's for support with a disk compatibility issue but once I located the right person highpoint support was very good.

How did you locate them? Highpoint support told us that a third party did the freebsd driver and that they had no intention of supporting it.

Just going through their support email. I believe Scott did the original FreeBSD 1820a port but they where more than helpful in fixing the issue I had which was a quite nasty compat issue with seagate 400GB disks.

FYI, several people have claimed that the 1820a is "hardware" -- this is untrue. It's hardware accelerated, but all of the raid logic is in the driver. It's sludgeware", not hardware raid. Performance tests against a real hardware raid adapter will demonstrate what I mean.

I believe you are wrong here and my own performance tests here backs this up, showing it keeps up with the more expensive areca in a number of areas notably, providing 180MB/s in sequential read tests from a 5 disk array.

Steve

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