make -j as a stress test (was: Re: Quality of FreeBSD) [WARNING - 6.0-BETA1 still hosed!]

[Robert Watson]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 12:00 AM 24/07/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
>> Finally, any pointers on a 2 port PCI SATA board that (1) is KNOWN to
>> work, (2) has EXTERNAL SATA connections, and (3) isn't one of those
>> whiz-bang all-in-one-RAID thingies that costs $500?
>
> 3ware makes an excellent 2 port SATA card (8000 series) that works very 
> well. Its about $110 USD from various online sources.  You can use it as 
> RAID1 or 2 independent disks.  They work very well and are well tested 
> in FreeBSD.

One of the things that makes 3ware a particularly encouraging choice is 
that 3ware helps maintain their driver on FreeBSD, as well as putting it 
through their own test environment with their hardware.  3ware's driver 
developer also has a FreeBSD commit bit so that he can maintain it 
directly.  The fact that vendors like 3ware and others (Intel, etc) get 
directly involved in testing and maintaining their drivers on FreeBSD is 
one of the things that gets them on my recommendation list for hardware 
purchases.

Robert N M Watson