Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:17:02 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <201002091717.10985.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1002090103520.982@hotlap.local> References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <alpine.OSX.2.00.1002090103520.982@hotlap.local>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Charles Sprickman wrote: > For home use is the hot-swap option really needed? Also, it seems > like people who use zfs (or gmirror + gstripe) generally end up > buying pricey hardware raid cards for compatibility reasons. There > seem to be no decent add-on SATA cards that play nice with FreeBSD > other than that weird supermicro card that has to be physically > hacked about to fit. A friend of mine is building one and I couldn't get the Supermicro card to work (the older version). It being a black box driver I couldn't see what the problem was. I had good success with the onboard SATA ports (AHCI compliant), however there are only 6 ports on the board I picked. Hopefully port multipliers will be fully working when I need some more disks ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLcQTu5ZPcIHs/zowRAuroAJ92cwLRfwmK32XJC8rrFGhWLE7FuACeNbeb KH9FMffd4qP4p/Akkz5BUjc= =59Ie -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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