Re: OpenBSD and Storage Servers

[Marco Peereboom <marco@peereboom.us>]

I run several PE1600's with a lot of success.  They use mpt(4).

IBM RAID cards are not supported.

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Gustavo Vieira Gonçalves Coelho Rios wrote:

> Hey folks!
>
> i am trying to configure a a openbsd server to buy by the end of this month.
> I am considering IBM, HP and DELL boxes. My problem relates about the lack
of
> information on third parties (like many of you) expepriences on such
> hardware.
>
> So, i wonder about you experience on such a hardware, performance/stability
> related information is very appreciated.
>
> For instance, i saw reading Dell PE 1600 it support on board U320 SCSI
> controller. But the same paper does say nothing about which models it is. Do
> anyone here runs OBSD 3.5 on PE 1600?
>
> Marco told me to stay away from DELL PERC 4SC due to low performance under
> very high loads. Is there plans to fix such? What could  be a good
substitute
> for such a raid controllers ? Which other boxes come with a good substitute
?
>
> Any one using IBM *series? What about RAID/SCSI support with HP DL3??
series?
> Does anybody here run DL3?? series?
>
> thanks a lot for your time and cooperation.