Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

udma raid cards like the highpoint series are very cheap on ebay because
so many people think sata is better that they are dumping them.  At the
same
time the drive manufacturers are dumping udma drives because they are
thinking the same thing.

TLast month for example I just put 2 mirrored 160GB seagates on a
highpoint.  The seagates were rebated down to about $35 each, and the
highpoint was off ebay for about $15.  If it's cheap disk storage your
looking
for, you can't really beat that.

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Mike Loiterman
>Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:57 PM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Natively supported inexpensive RAID cards
>
>
>I'm looking to setup a 4 drive SATA RAID 5 file server for mp3, avi, and
>other media using 6.0-RELEASE.
>
>It appears that the supported SATA RAID cards listed in
>/stand/help/HARDWARE.TXT are all over $400.00.  That's hard for
>to justify
>for this application, unless there are no other choices.
>
>I'd like to keep this simple, so if the price for that is $450
>bucks, well,
>I guess I'll have to deal with that.  But, I figured it
>wouldn't hurt to ask
>if are there any well supported SATA RAID cards (meaning setup
>automatically
>recognizes an array setup in the RAID card's BIOS as one drive)
>in the $100
>to $200 range.  I don't need anything other than 5, but other
>levels would
>be nice for future use.  Even better would be a motherboard with onboard
>RAID that FreeBSD supported natively.
>
>If there aren't any such cards or motherboards, are there
>relatively easy
>work-arounds using less expensive cards?
>
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