freebsd stable - Jun 2005 - What is considered "the best supported" RAID controller for 5.x?

The subject says it all ... I'm looking a new server, and right now have 
built it around the SRCZCRX PCI-X 128MB, since I've had good luck with the 
Intel RAID controllers with 4.x, and I *really* like the storcon CLI 
utility ... but, with the move to 5.x, I'm wondering if there is something 
else I should be looking at, or is this still a good card to go with?

Thanks ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664

At 08:41 PM 17/06/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>The subject says it all ... I'm looking a new server, and right now have
>built it around the SRCZCRX PCI-X 128MB, since I've had good luck with
the
>Intel RAID controllers with 4.x, and I *really* like the storcon CLI 
>utility ... but, with the move to 5.x, I'm wondering if there is
something
>else I should be looking at, or is this still a good card to go with?
I still like the 3ware cards for RAID1.  However, I have started using the 
Areca cards so far with good results on RAID5 machines.  There is both an 
http and cli app and the cards are VERY fast on the tests I have done.  See 
the arcmsr driver man page.

         ---Mike

Hello!
> The subject says it all ... I'm looking a new server, and right now
have
> built it around the SRCZCRX PCI-X 128MB, since I've had good luck with
the
> Intel RAID controllers with 4.x, and I *really* like the storcon CLI 
> utility ... but, with the move to 5.x, I'm wondering if there is
something
> else I should be looking at, or is this still a good card to go with?
IMHO it's the entire product line of ICP Vortex, now owned
by Adaptec. These cards really rock. Battery backed up cache,
RAID 1+0, driver maintained my company's engineers, yet in
the stock FreeBSD kernel, curses based management utility
to repair arrays without reboot, unattended rebuild if
you exchange a broken disk with a brand new one, same
interface to the host for _all_ products including SATA, ...

Just works. Period.

We use them for typo3.org, wetteronline.de uses them.

I'm in no way affiliated with them, I just like the products.
A lot ;-)

HTH,
Patrick M. Hausen
Leiter Netzwerke und Sicherheit
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