> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Mike Loiterman > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:57 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards > > > 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?
Have you considered software RAID5? -gayn Bristol Systems Inc. 714/532-6776 www.bristolsystems.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
