Subject: Re: 3Ware 6xxx raid controller firmware
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@kyyhky.embedtronics.fi>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/23/2006 23:47:05
I'll see what I can do, according to Thor though, raidframe should do
as well as a 3w6410 - though I assume he's talking about a modern box
;-)  Mine is

cpu0: Intel Pentium III (686-class), 448.90 MHz, id 0x673

Also the 6410 doesn't support SATA,

--sjg

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:59:11 +0300, Jukka Marin writes:
>On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:37:42PM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
>> twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE6X 1.02.28.053, BIOS BE6X 1.07.02.005
>> twe0: Monitor ME6X 1.01.00.028, PCB Rev2    , Achip V4.40   , Pchip V5.70   
>> twe0: port 0: MAXTOR 6L080L4                           76345 MB
>> twe0: port 1: MAXTOR 6L080L4                           76345 MB
>> twe0: port 2: ST3300622A                               286168 MB
>> twe0: port 3: ST3300622A                               286168 MB
>
>Can you post some benchmark results of the RAID system?  I'm (going to) use
>raidframe (RAID1) on SATA2 disks which seem to have a sustained speed of
>63 MB/s (when fixing raidframe parity), but the performance of the raidframe
>disk is only a fraction of this.  I'm wondering if a hardware RAID controller
>makes a real difference here.
>
>  -jm