Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 23:29:20 -0000 From: "Graeme Dargie" <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> To: "Elliot Finley" <efinleywork@efinley.com>, "Christopher Key" <cjk32@cam.ac.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3) Message-ID: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F789739295652@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> In-Reply-To: <49B01261.5010200@efinley.com> References: <49AFE0DF.9000003@cam.ac.uk> <49B01261.5010200@efinley.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Elliot Finley [mailto:efinleywork@efinley.com]=20 Sent: 05 March 2009 17:57 To: Christopher Key Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3) Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home > media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large > numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been=20 > unable to find any consensus on their level of support in FreeBSD. I'm=20 > currently looking at a RocketRAID 2314 and SiI3726 based port=20 > multipliers. Has any had any experience with this combination? Why not just upgrade to 7-Stable and then use these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=3DN82E16815121009 they cost less than port multipliers. They don't do RAID, but then if=20 you're on 7-Stable, you can use ZFS zraid. Elliot _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I had utter hell with a belkin pci sata card which used a silicon image chipset. The main problem would show up when writing a large amount of data to the drives which were in a zfs array. I even tried this card on 3 different motherboards with various combinations of sata hard disks and the result was the same when writing a large amount of data, a drive would randomly disconnect from the system. I understand from reading sata controllers based on a promise chipset are much better under freebsd 7. In then end I trumped for a new motherboard with 6 sata ports on it and it is running 6 x 500gb drives in a ZFS array just perfectly. Regards Graeme
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