On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:
At 12:00 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
Finally, any pointers on a 2 port PCI SATA board that (1) is KNOWN to
work, (2) has EXTERNAL SATA connections, and (3) isn't one of those
whiz-bang all-in-one-RAID thingies that costs $500?
3ware makes an excellent 2 port SATA card (8000 series) that works very
well. Its about $110 USD from various online sources. You can use it as
RAID1 or 2 independent disks. They work very well and are well tested
in FreeBSD.
One of the things that makes 3ware a particularly encouraging choice is
that 3ware helps maintain their driver on FreeBSD, as well as putting it
through their own test environment with their hardware. 3ware's driver
developer also has a FreeBSD commit bit so that he can maintain it
directly. The fact that vendors like 3ware and others (Intel, etc) get
directly involved in testing and maintaining their drivers on FreeBSD is
one of the things that gets them on my recommendation list for hardware
purchases.
Robert N M Watson
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