well-supported SATA RAID card?

[Brian Szymanski]

Wow - Lots of votes for 3ware.

Any votes for something cheaper? The 3ware's are more than I want to spend...

Also, does anyone know if the megaraid management tools work on freebsd?

Cheers,
Brian

>> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:07:51 +0100
>> From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen at punkt.de>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
>>
>> 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 ;-)
>
> Well, they are also probably not too cheap, but I have been very happy
> with the 3Ware SATA card. 3Ware has been very good at support for
> FreeBSD and the management tool (3DM2) is in ports.
> --
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
>
>


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