Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 13:38:21 +0200 From: "Thomas Fischer" <tfischer@gmail.com> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> Cc: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sata raid card for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <6651c95f0705090438t26f425c3sd75e0eea26057752@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net> References: <6651c95f0705081545l7ae7c0eckaea9274ab3c6f836@mail.gmail.com> <20070508232114.GA90310@keira.kiwi-computer.com> <20070508221733.G17200@kerplunk.tbe.net>
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Hi Gary, Thanks for your comments - I've found a Highpoint 1640 card at an interesting price - 4 ports, so I have room to expand in the future. Any gotchas with this card as opposed to the 1542 that you've recommended? best regards, tom On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta <gary@tbe.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: > > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote: > >> > >> Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both > >> Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for > me. Would > >> anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would > be > >> well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just > something > >> with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well) > supported by > >> FreeBSD (and Windows). > > > > SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or > > similar would work: > > > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219 > > Go for a Highpoint card, something like the 1542, I've got a bunch in > both windows and freebsd machines, and they work rather well. They're not > the speediest cards, but I've not had a DOA or a failure yet with them, > and they just work. > > I'd personally stay away from the Sil chipsets, the newer ones aren't as > bad, but I've seen a lot of not-nice things about those cards from Soren > in the past, and being that he's the ATA maintainer, I'd take his advice > pretty seriously. > > -Gary > >
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