[nycbug-talk] 2x 3Ware Escalade 9500S-4LP SATA

[Gordon Smith]

> With that, I'm willing to start hacking through this problem- I'll be  
> working with the cards either tomorrow, or Saturday- (depending on  
> the Strike, and a few other variables)...
> 
> Gordon- Do you have one of these cards too?  I'm wanting to start  
> pooling notes on this or something...

We haven't bought any hardware (RAID controllers included) for 
FreeBSD implementation yet.  We're planning to buy a few server 
machines (probably 2-3 at the moment) that will be ready to go 
for FreeBSD with RAID 1+0.  We were considering installing 
FreeBSD 6.0 on the new machines, so long as the resulting 
configurations proved stable; we may have to go with 5.4 for 
the moment until we can identify a RAID 1+0 card that works 
reliably under 6.0.  

I appreciate your willingness to work through this issue.  
Whatever info you can collect would be helpful...

When we buy and install the machines, if there are "standard" 
Controller performance benchmarks that I can run, I'll be happy 
to post the test results.

Cheers,
Gordon