Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 22:20:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> To: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Thomas Fischer <tfischer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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On Tue, 8 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: >> >> Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both >> Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for me. Would >> anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would be >> well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just something >> with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) supported by >> FreeBSD (and Windows). > > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or > similar would work: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 Go for a Highpoint card, something like the 1542, I've got a bunch in both windows and freebsd machines, and they work rather well. They're not the speediest cards, but I've not had a DOA or a failure yet with them, and they just work. I'd personally stay away from the Sil chipsets, the newer ones aren't as bad, but I've seen a lot of not-nice things about those cards from Soren in the past, and being that he's the ATA maintainer, I'd take his advice pretty seriously. -Gary
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