Artem Kuchin
2007-Feb-08 09:43 UTC
What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?
Hello! I need a raid controller for FBSD 6.2 which has the following options 1) Full SATA-II support 2) Good rperfomance (over 50MB read, over 30 write) in mirror mode 3) No weird problems with freebSD (like with SRCS16) 4) Utility to monitor status of raids (command line or web) 5) Utility to rebuild, repair, manager arrays in OS 6) Preferably Intel I know, 3ware has such good stuff, but those controller are not certified for internet services in here (russia). So, i am pretty much limited to Intel controllers. Is there intel controller which satisfied all the 1-6 conditions? I only need mirroring. -- ? ?????????, ????? ????? ??? "?? ?? ??????" www.itlegion.ru +7 (495) 232-0338
Stefan Lambrev
2007-Feb-08 09:57 UTC
What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?
Hello, Artem Kuchin wrote:> Hello! > > I need a raid controller for FBSD 6.2 which has the following options > > 1) Full SATA-II support > 2) Good rperfomance (over 50MB read, over 30 write) in mirror mode > 3) No weird problems with freebSD (like with SRCS16) > 4) Utility to monitor status of raids (command line or web) > 5) Utility to rebuild, repair, manager arrays in OS > 6) Preferably IntelI'm very happy with ARECA ARC1110. ARECA also provide cli tool for freebsd on their site. I'm using it in RAID 10 configuration and here are few benchmark results that I run on production server ;) *bonnie++ -d /var/tmp -u root -s 16g -n 256:65536:65536:16 Version 1.93c* Version 1.93c ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP blah.cmotd.com 16G 159 88 54264 24 24727 12 299 94 70744 19 223.5 12 Latency 63581us 803ms 1123ms 93936us 94991us 251ms Version 1.93c ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- blah.cmotd.com -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files:max:min /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 256:65536:65536/16 715 24 826 25 17321 49 733 24 51 2 6039 70 Latency 1220ms 408ms 2805ms 1189ms 692ms 2735ms *./bonnie++ -d /mnt/mblogs -u root -s 16g -n 256:65536:65536:16 - Version 1.03* Version 1.03 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP blah.cmotd.com 16G 54953 57 56950 21 24375 10 48757 49 70351 17 202.5 1 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files:max:min /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 256:65536:65536/16 723 20 909 17 20905 41 756 21 51 2 6528 74 FreeBSD blah.XXX 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #3: Tue Oct 10 13:28:56 CEST 2006 root@blah.XXX:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CORE-SMP i386> > I know, 3ware has such good stuff, but those controller are not > certified for internet services in here (russia). So, i am pretty much > limited to Intel controllers. Is there intel controller which > satisfied all the > 1-6 conditions? I only need mirroring. > > -- > ? ?????????, > ????? ????? > ??? "?? ?? ??????" > www.itlegion.ru > +7 (495) 232-0338 > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"-- Best Wishes, Stefan Lambrev ICQ# 24134177
Rink Springer
2007-Feb-08 10:09 UTC
What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?
Hi, On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:42:39PM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote:> I need a raid controller for FBSD 6.2 which has the following optionsI can highly recommend the Areca family of SATA-II controllers. I have a ARC-1110 (4 poort RAID controller) with 4x 320GB Western Digital SATA-II drives attached to it in a RAID5 configuration. Simple dd(1)-ing gives around 100MB/sec read and 70MB/sec write performance. You can use sysutils/areca-cli to monitor it and update settings (I have never tried actually creating arrays there though). The controllers are a tad expensive, but once you have one, you won't reget it. Regards, -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But yet a far more terrible thing, to admit it." - Darth Traya -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 2415 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070208/662544f3/smime.bin
Patrick M. Hausen
2007-Feb-08 10:45 UTC
What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?
Hi, All On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:42:39PM +0300, Artem Kuchin wrote:> I need a raid controller for FBSD 6.2 which has the following options > [...]For us the current solution is: "none at all". The big big advantage of using geom mirror instead of a "hardware RAID controller" is: The disks will boot and run in _any_ system that is capable of using the disks at all. Dedicated RAID controllers lock you to the specific brand and sometimes even model you use. Bad for desaster recovery. With a geom mirrored SCSI or SATA disk, if an entire system/mainboard/CPU fails, I simply plug the disks in the next spare box available, boot, possibly change name of network interface, done. With hardware evolving so rapidly nowadays you cannot guarantee to have another identical controller on the shelf when you need it. Happened to us with ICP-Vortex (iir) controllers. ROHS - product unavailable :-/ Successor not compatible in terms of on-disk data structure. We are now happily running RAID 1 and RAID 1+0 with geom. Regards, HTH, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Vorholzstr. 25 * 76137 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 info@punkt.de http://www.punkt.de Gf: J?rgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285
Alexander Sabourenkov
2007-Feb-09 13:37 UTC
What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?
Artem Kuchin wrote:> hi! > > I am the original poster of this thread. I have read many interesting > reply during these two days. However, as i said in the original message > due to certification issues i am pretty limited to INTEL controllers and > i have not seen a single relevant reply about them. > This is interesting. Nobody uses Intel controllers on FreeBSD or > they just suck that much?If you have enough SATA ports and no need for fancy RAID levels, then my advice is to use gmirror. Hardware RAID1 buys you nothing in perfomance and reliability for a prolonged headache with drivers, bios insanity and monitoring+control tools. -- ./lxnt