HP Proliant SATA RAID Cards for FreeBSD?

[nocturnal]

Hi

I need to buy a server from a HP partner for a customer and we don't 
need hardware RAID but we would prefer it. We do need SATA because of 
budget restrictions. I'm new to hardware and i don't know much at all 
about SATA or SATA RAID. I've had only bad experience with SATA RAID 
cards using FreeBSD where disk writes timed out and made the system hang 
repeatedly.

They offer mainly Proliant machines and i'm wondering which cards you 
guys have experience with working well on FreeBSD. We will be using 
6.0-RELEASE for the operatingsystem. We could also accept software RAID 
if it comes to that, all we need to know is that it will work without 
problems and be stable for a production environment.

If any of you feel kind enough to recommend a machine for me then the 
required specs are at least two cpu slots with one Intel Xeon processor 
of at least 2.0GHz. At least 512MB ram and at least 40GB disks in 
hardware raid of course. SCSI disks would be great if the price is right 
but SATA disks are recommended because of limited ammounts of resources.
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