What is a good choice of sata-ii raid controller for freebsd?

[Stefan Lambrev]

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 Intel
I'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 at 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.
>
> -- 
> С уважением,
> Артем Кучин
> ООО "Ай  Ти Легион"
> www.itlegion.ru
> +7 (495) 232-0338
>
>
>
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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
ICQ# 24134177