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I am looking for a decent controller to have about 16 disks for ZFS on 
FreeBSD.  A pair of LSI 9240-8i seems like a pretty reasonable price 
point compared to the equiv tws cards.  I have had great success with 
3ware cards to date.  How stable is the mfi driver compared to the tws 
on FreeBSD ?

I would be using it in jbod mode for a large ZFS server

	---Mike
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