Recommended SATA controllers

[Charles Sprickman]

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Charles Sprickman writes:
>
>> I'll need to put some kind of SATA controller in there.  What can I buy 
>> that's known to be very stable under 6.2?  I recall that in the past some 
>> onboard SATA controllers were a little sketchy...
>
> If you need RAID 3ware cards are a possible option.
> Althrough I rarely have any problems with 3ware cards a couple of times 
> (Freebsd 6.2) the controller has either frozen or restarted the machine. 
> However this has been fairly rare.

I use the 3Ware cards, but this is just a personal box, and I've been 
happy with gmirror on a few other hosts.  I want to save a few bucks and 
also continue to pummel gmirror to see how it holds up...

Looking to spend under $70 or so, which I'm guessing is a pretty high 
ceiling for a non-RAID card.

Thanks!

Charles