-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thus Drew spake: >>> To make it short: Have a x345 here with ServeRAID ?? (Adaptec >>> ASR-2020S). As soon as I realized I have to install additional SW and >>> the HBA has no decent BIOS, I ripped it out of the machine and went mdadm. >> The x345 seems to be a bad example, the speed on the ServeRaid adapter >> in there really sucked, I am seeing better throughput with mdadm on >> there too. >> >> With other machines I really didn't have problems with ServeRaid, except >> if you suddenly get one of those ServeRaid cards which can only do >> RAID1 or RAID0 :) > > The 7k model on this one does RAID 5 and the two non-standard 5E & 5EE > versions. The performance on the contoller is not bad given that the > RAID is hung off either the PCI-X133 or PCI-E busses (forget which). > Both CentOS & Win2k03 performance is adequate. Mine stuck in the PCI-X133 (the x345 doesn't have PCIe). It should be able to provide decent performance. However, even given that decent software for management is provided, I like to go the ``it's already supported out of the box by the OS installed'' approch (I must confess that I really like OpenBSD in this regard)... > As an aside, I'm still running tests on Samba 3 as a AD domain member > and aside from having to chmod 777 the root of the fileshare to allow > the ACL's to work properly everything is fine. But that's an issue for > another list. Best, Timo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKIOADO/2mgkVVV7kRAmgoAJ98mA+rlZ1zc7qxpZVZ56yrXQvjJACeKogr jxHXpq6r2A1QFGWycw61tU4= =c2mo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----