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Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Christopher Key <cjk32@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)
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> Why not just upgrade to 7-Stable and then use these:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
>
> they cost less than port multipliers.  They don't do RAID, but then if you're 
> on 7-Stable, you can use ZFS zraid.
>
or use geom based RAIDs and UFS

thanks for URL, anyway new machines usually don't have PCI-X