From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 14:57:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46D416A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:57:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.wep.tudelft.nl (karres.wep.tudelft.nl [130.161.83.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7135743D4C for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:57:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rogier@virgiel.nl) Received: (qmail 3474 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2004 22:57:11 -0000 Received: from valhalla.iverdahl.local (HELO valhalla) (192.168.100.24) by mail.iverdahl.local with SMTP; 4 Jan 2004 22:57:11 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20040104235707.0123f9c0@virgiel.xs4all.nl> Organisation: Iverdahl.net X-Security: 512bit CAST Cypher (SSH reroute) X-Mailer: Rapier v2.5 (BSD/OS v4.2) Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 23:57:07 +0100 To: FreeBSD-questions list From: Rogier Krieger In-Reply-To: <200401041939.BAA16532@manage.24online> References: <3.0.5.32.20040104200916.011e4c00@virgiel.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: Support for affordable S-ATA RAID controllers (xs4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 22:57:15 -0000 Previous correspondence from Subhro (01:06 5-1-2004 +0530): >What is the amount of money you would like to shell out for the card? As I mentioned, it's supposed to be relatively cheap. Say 50 to 100 EUR. (US$ 65 - 125 as present rates). I should've given the figure in my first message. Sorry for that. >do you have any good reason for going for SATA and not SCSI (if you need >speed) and ATA (i.e. P-ATA [...] I intend to use two WD Raptor S-ATA discs for the machine. From what we've seen so far, their performance is quite remarkable. The 3ware cards are quite expensive, according to the pricing lists I've seen so far. I wonder if the 8506-card mentioned in another post also works in 32bit PCI slots. Otherwise, I'd need a Xeon board. But that's another post in the thread. Thanks for your quick reply, Rogier Krieger -- "Eagles fly, but weasels don't get caught in jet engines..."