Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 01:56:35 -0600 From: "Mike Loiterman" <mike@ascendency.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards Message-ID: <017501c62960$85851b10$0401a8c0@Mike8500>
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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
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