RAID HW

[Matthew Bettinger]

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 08:17 am, Peter Elsner wrote:
> I use the 3-Ware Escalade IDE RAID card.  It's inexpensive, and works
> right out of the box.
> So far have not had any problems with it in 20 different servers for
> the past 2 years.
>
> Peter Elsner

I have had HELL with an adaptec 2400A card.  I know of another user on 
this list who also had difficulties with this particular card.  I 
wouldn't wish the pain this card has given me on my worst enemy.  ;-)



>
> At 07:55 AM 7/29/2003 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hello there,
> >
> >please, what RAID controller for ATA HDDs should I use in my new
> > fileserver. There will be run 4.8 with samba (for Win clients) and
> > netatalk (for Mac clients). I'm looking for some, which are
> > "officialy" supported by FreeBSD, without any special requirements.
> >
> >I'd like to use RAID 5, if possible.
> >
> >Thanks for all recomendations.
> >
> >Peter Rosa

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Matthew Bettinger
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Houston, Texas 77061
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