On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:41:37 +0100 (CET)
Stephan Thesing <thesing@cs.uni-sb.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> we are looking for a new server, which should have a RAID array (probably 
> with SATA disks, as the SCSI price tag is a little bit high) and run under 
> NetBSD.
> 
> Can anybody share his experience with RAID controllers/setups and/or give a 
> recommendation?
> 
> ( Availability of a monitoring/control utility like those in
>    pkgsrc/sysutils/dptutil or sysutils/storage-manager  would be nice, too:-)
> 
> 
> BTW: What I2O controllers are actually known to work under NetBSD?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Best regards.....
>  	Stephan
> 


3ware 8000 series controllers seem to work just fine. I've only used the 2 and
4 port varieties, but I _assume_ the 8 port ones should work as well. 

I have several other systems running raidframe, but I usually use raid 1 on
those systems. For raid5, I usually use 3ware cards, although I have some 
raid 1's on 3ware and some raidframe using raid5 as well.

If you don't need high performance, and you don't want to buy a spare card
in case the 3ware card dies, you might want to consider raidframe. Otherwise, 
your just adding a new single point of failure into your systems. 

Harry Waddell