ZFS Advice

[Peter Schuller]

> - Which brand of controllers are best supported by FreeBSD? I've seen
> 3Ware, Areca and LSI mentioned, and the prices are all pretty much the
> same. Can anyone share some of their experiences with these vendors?

I realize I am ignoring the most interesting bits of your post, but I recently 
found indications that the HighPoint driver in FreeBSD supports port 
multipliers. I found someone claiming that it is supported on a mailinglist. 
Checking HighPoint does list multiplier support as an "official" card feature 
for those cards that support it, and they are maintaining FreeBSD has a 
supported platform AFAIK. I sent a request to them to confirm whether this 
was indeed the case, but haven't received a response (yet?).

Since you mention  you're on a budget, I thought I'd mention this since, right 
now, the most likely future path for me will be either HighPoint if I can 
confirm multiplier support, or future FreeBSD releases given that multiplier 
support seems to be on the way in for various controllers.

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