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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:20:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Brian Szymanski" <ski@mediamatters.org>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?
Message-ID:  <1270.68.49.189.193.1141982410.squirrel@68.49.189.193>
In-Reply-To: <20060310090751.GD74820@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
References:  <1219.68.49.189.193.1141981287.squirrel@68.49.189.193> <20060310090751.GD74820@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>

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> Mornin'
>
>> After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's
>> rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with
>> any
>> SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with
>> utilities that let you manage while the OS is running that folks have
>> had
>> good luck with? I've been happy with the megaraid series on linux at my
>> job, but I'm wondering if the management utilities are there on freebsd,
>> etc.
>
> http://www.icp-vortex.com/english/product/pci/rz_sata_8/8586rz_e.htm
>
> Expensive? Yes.
>
> Fast, reliable, cheap - pick any two ;-)

In my case, I'm actually shooting for reliable and (relatively) cheap :)
Fast is nice but I don't much care, so the megaraids look slightly better
than this product, but thanks for the tip anyway :)


Brian Szymanski
Software and Systems Developer
Media Matters for America
ski@mediamatters.org




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