Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 19:34:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended SATA controllers Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0705181932290.365@gee5.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <cone.1179528158.971883.82263.5001@35st.simplicato.com> References: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0705181803340.365@gee5.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <cone.1179528158.971883.82263.5001@35st.simplicato.com>
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On Fri, 18 May 2007, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Charles Sprickman writes: > >> I'll need to put some kind of SATA controller in there. What can I buy >> that's known to be very stable under 6.2? I recall that in the past some >> onboard SATA controllers were a little sketchy... > > If you need RAID 3ware cards are a possible option. > Althrough I rarely have any problems with 3ware cards a couple of times > (Freebsd 6.2) the controller has either frozen or restarted the machine. > However this has been fairly rare. I use the 3Ware cards, but this is just a personal box, and I've been happy with gmirror on a few other hosts. I want to save a few bucks and also continue to pummel gmirror to see how it holds up... Looking to spend under $70 or so, which I'm guessing is a pretty high ceiling for a non-RAID card. Thanks! Charles
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