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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:47:55 -0400
From:      "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com>
To:        Patrick C <pcloches@gmail.com>
Cc:        Julio Gomez <gomez@telehouse.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell's PERC6i
Message-ID:  <487BC98B.7000306@p6m7g8.com>
In-Reply-To: <34394a3a0807101621l41f7f24dt8d0e894824f5d5ad@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <010201c8e2cf$810894b0$8319be10$@com> <34394a3a0807101621l41f7f24dt8d0e894824f5d5ad@mail.gmail.com>

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Patrick C wrote:
> The 6i will work on FreeBSD, however realize that a much better choice
> for a production machine is a card which "really" supports FreeBSD...
> just due to the availability and reliability of the tools required for
> maintaining the system while running.
> 
> Have you considered SuperMicro machines with 3ware (AMCC) cards? I'm
> not affiliated either, but it seems to be a great combo. AMCC still
> supports FreeBSD pretty well, and the cards perform well.
I'm using the Perc 6I in production on 2950s with RAID1+0 with SAS drives.

Also, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is using the same card with 
ZFS of FreeBSD with SATA drives for svn.apache.org.

I won't comment on what card is better or worse, or faster, b/c I don't 
know.





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