RAID Cards

[Mike Tancsa]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:38:42 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware
you wrote:

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>I am looking to build a new file server.  I have used
>Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking
>at Highpoint cards for this machine.  Anybody have any
>opinions on RAID cards?


For RAID1, the 3ware cards are great.  I have been using them many
years.  For RAID5, I have started using the Areca SATA cards. VERY
fast.  Both are supported out of the box on FreeBSD 5.4 install CD

	---Mike
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