Highpoint RR1520?

Dean Hamstead dean at fragfest.com.au
Wed May 20 23:08:10 UTC 2009


its worth benchmarking for yourself and seeing if your 64bit powerhouse 
can outperform the raid cpu.

most of the time you will see soft raid doign better

Dean

Gary D. Margiotta wrote:
> I have used several of these cards under FreeBSD.  They are not hardware
> raid cards, they do not have dedicated processors on them.
> 
> However, they work just fine, and you can set the raid up in the card's
> bios, and freebsd will recognize the disk as a single unit.  However, I
> don't bother, I use gmirror, it's all about the same at that point.  I
> don't remember off the top of my head which driver it uses, but I didn't
> need to add anything.
> 
> -Gary
> 
> Ivan Voras wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> Is the product described at:
>>
>> http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr1520.htm
>>
>> a "real" (not soft-) RAID? Is it supported by hptrr? (judging by the man
>> page and a quick glance at the code, it doesn't look like it is)
>>
>>
>>
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