From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Dec 12 17:10:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from thud.tbe.net (thud.tbe.net [209.123.109.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7819914F0D for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 17:10:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: from localhost (gary@localhost) by thud.tbe.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA13352 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:08:47 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:08:46 -0500 (EST) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Tekram vs. Adaptec U2W Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Heya... Am about to purchase 2 u2w controllers for a box... I was thinking of purchasing a Tekram card, but I'm an Adaptec fan. A friend of mine bought a Tekram card, and won't stop raving about it, and he has an Adaptec u2w also. I was just wondering if anyone has any good experiences with the Tekram cards, and has an opinion as to whether I should buy one instead of going the Adaptec way. The box is already a news server, dual PII-450, 512MB RAM, and has a good amount of use. We will be running 9 drives per card, in Kingston data silos. There will be no RAID array of any sort. so no need to use a DPT card, or require any card to have RAID support. Any opinions would be welcome, thanks! -Gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message