Best hardware to mirror IDE drives under FreeBSD?

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 06:34 PM 6/26/2005, Nikolas Britton wrote:
>
>
>> Highpoint RocketRAID:
>> 1640:   4xSATA,    PCI 32bit, 33MHz
>> 1810A: 4xSATA,    PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz
>> 1820A: 8xSATA,    PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz
>> 2220:   8xSATA-II,  PCI-X 64bit, 66/100/133Mhz
>>
>> With the exception of the 2220 all of the other cards do RAID 5 in
>> software.

The 1820a has hardware XOR while the 1820 is purely software

Chad

>> For your needs just about any RAID card from anyone will do
>> what you want. The main reason I recommended highpoint's raid cards
>> this because the company fully supports FreeBSD 4.x / 5.x with  
>> drivers
>> and CLI/GUI management programs.
>>
>
> That's great! We don't run GUIs on servers that run RAID (for obvious
> reasons), but if they have a good CLI program it'll work well.
>
>
>> For you hot-swapping needs look here for SATA cages:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp? 
>> Submit=GO&Range=1&bop=and&description=cage&srchInDesc=SATA
>>
>
> Anything that'll fit in a 17" relay rack?
>
> --Brett
>
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