Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:47:55 -0400 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@p6m7g8.com> To: Patrick C <pcloches@gmail.com> Cc: Julio Gomez <gomez@telehouse.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell's PERC6i Message-ID: <487BC98B.7000306@p6m7g8.com> In-Reply-To: <34394a3a0807101621l41f7f24dt8d0e894824f5d5ad@mail.gmail.com> References: <010201c8e2cf$810894b0$8319be10$@com> <34394a3a0807101621l41f7f24dt8d0e894824f5d5ad@mail.gmail.com>
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Patrick C wrote: > The 6i will work on FreeBSD, however realize that a much better choice > for a production machine is a card which "really" supports FreeBSD... > just due to the availability and reliability of the tools required for > maintaining the system while running. > > Have you considered SuperMicro machines with 3ware (AMCC) cards? I'm > not affiliated either, but it seems to be a great combo. AMCC still > supports FreeBSD pretty well, and the cards perform well. I'm using the Perc 6I in production on 2950s with RAID1+0 with SAS drives. Also, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is using the same card with ZFS of FreeBSD with SATA drives for svn.apache.org. I won't comment on what card is better or worse, or faster, b/c I don't know.
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