Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:47:25 +0200 From: Matt Douhan <matt@fruitsalad.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Looking for a recommendation for hardware RAID cards and FreeBSD Message-ID: <200507142247.25648.matt@fruitsalad.org> In-Reply-To: <200507141343.26708.fcash@ocis.net> References: <Pine.A41.4.61b.0507141128100.34182@aagaard02.u.washington.edu> <200507141343.26708.fcash@ocis.net>
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On Thursday 14 July 2005 22.43, Freddie Cash wrote: > On July 14, 2005 11:33 am, J. Nyhuis wrote: > > I am looking at purchasing a 3ware SATA 8006-2LP RAID (SATA) > > controllers for a servers running FreeBSD 5.4-stable. Is anyone out > > there using a SATA 3ware RAID controller card on FreeBSD and would be > > willing share their experiences, good, bad, or otherwise? > > 3ware has done well by me with my Linux boxes, but I am willing to > > consider other vendors if they have a better product. > > I've heard great things about the 9000-series from 3Ware on the -current > and -stable mailing lists. There's even vendor support (FreeBSD drivers, > CLI management, web management, etc) from 3Ware, as well as the 3dm ports > and native drivers. we use both the 8000 and the 9000 they are really nice and fast, I would stay away from the PATA 7000 though it is not very fun to work with and very particular about what fw it has loaded. Matt
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