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On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote:

> I just wanted to ask - how do you guys deal with Smart Array =
controllers
> ? Do you install Linux/Solaris on these servers (I do), because =
FreeBSD
> doesn't have an utility to watch after the raid (I'm aware that it =
used
> to have one, first it was just fine, then it was required to do a lot =
of
> stuff to use it, and nowadays it's finally noy useable with new
> firmware)?

I own two Microserver Gen8 servers. The way to go is to set up the =
controller in SATA mode (no RAID)
and use ZFS.





Borja.