Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:15:43 +0100 From: nocturnal <nocturnal@swehack.se> To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: HP Proliant SATA RAID Cards for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <43F5CC7F.7010304@swehack.se>
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Hi I need to buy a server from a HP partner for a customer and we don't need hardware RAID but we would prefer it. We do need SATA because of budget restrictions. I'm new to hardware and i don't know much at all about SATA or SATA RAID. I've had only bad experience with SATA RAID cards using FreeBSD where disk writes timed out and made the system hang repeatedly. They offer mainly Proliant machines and i'm wondering which cards you guys have experience with working well on FreeBSD. We will be using 6.0-RELEASE for the operatingsystem. We could also accept software RAID if it comes to that, all we need to know is that it will work without problems and be stable for a production environment. If any of you feel kind enough to recommend a machine for me then the required specs are at least two cpu slots with one Intel Xeon processor of at least 2.0GHz. At least 512MB ram and at least 40GB disks in hardware raid of course. SCSI disks would be great if the price is right but SATA disks are recommended because of limited ammounts of resources. -- Med vänliga hälsningar Stefan Midjich aka nocturnal [Swehack] http://swehack.se
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