From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 07:56:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 9CEC316A420 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 07:56:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.192.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E30743D49 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 07:56:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from eisenhower.ascendency.net ([67.173.128.145]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060204075637m13009dhv9e>; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 07:56:37 +0000 Received: from Mike8500 (ipcop.localdomain [192.168.1.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by eisenhower.ascendency.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k147uakY042112 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 01:56:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) From: "Mike Loiterman" To: Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 01:56:35 -0600 Message-ID: <017501c62960$85851b10$0401a8c0@Mike8500> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcYpYITeDajqvo9DSPWlqUA4sXtMMA== X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (eisenhower.ascendency.net [192.168.1.22]); Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:56:36 -0600 (CST) Subject: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mike@ascendency.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:56:38 -0000 I'm looking to setup a 4 drive SATA RAID 5 file server for mp3, avi, and other media using 6.0-RELEASE. It appears that the supported SATA RAID cards listed in /stand/help/HARDWARE.TXT are all over $400.00. That's hard for to justify for this application, unless there are no other choices. I'd like to keep this simple, so if the price for that is $450 bucks, well, I guess I'll have to deal with that. But, I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask if are there any well supported SATA RAID cards (meaning setup automatically recognizes an array setup in the RAID card's BIOS as one drive) in the $100 to $200 range. I don't need anything other than 5, but other levels would be nice for future use. Even better would be a motherboard with onboard RAID that FreeBSD supported natively. If there aren't any such cards or motherboards, are there relatively easy work-arounds using less expensive cards? ------------------------------ Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: mike@ascendency.net PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E