ATA Raid cards

[Mike Tancsa]

3ware is the way to go in my experience.  They work really well under 
FreeBSD, Windows and Linux. The FreeBSD drivers were originally written by 
Mike Smith and Paul Saab is now maintaining them.  They are not overly 
fancy in FreeBSD but they do what they are designed to do.  I have used 
them extensively in RAID0, 1 and 10. RAID 5 is slow, but thats more RAID5 
than anything. Also RAID 1 seems to be very intelligent about reads, using 
both drives to give better read performance as compared to the stats with 
just one drive.  Writes on RAID 1 are not penalized at all.

         ---Mike

At 09:42 AM 23/10/2003, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm in a need of such a card, but I can't find out which cards are only
>doing raid under windows with specific drivers, and which cards are doing
>real hard raid.
>
>--
>Mathieu Arnold