SATA raid card for FreeBSD box?

I’m looking to put RT on FreeBSD box, but want to run it raid 5. So far
I’ve not found any SATA cards that the manufactures have drivers for.
What are others using?
Thanks,
Jason

I’m looking to put RT on FreeBSD box, but want to run it raid 5. So
far
I’ve not found any SATA cards that the manufactures have drivers for.
What are others using?

You’re doing it backwards… look for cards that FreeBSD has drivers
for already built-in.

I picked up an SATA controller for $9 from some web site. It has an
ACARD chip on it and supports up to 4 drives. Looks like they’re out
of the ones I got, now though.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806

smime.p7s (2.42 KB)

I’m looking to put RT on FreeBSD box, but want to run it raid
5. So far
I’ve not found any SATA cards that the manufactures have drivers for.
What are others using?
Thanks,
Jason

3ware 8000 or 9000 series cards work great.

http://www.3ware.com

I’ve also used one of the Promise SATA RAID cards (can’t remember which
model offhand) and it works well too, but I highly prefer the 3ware card.
Its worth the extra $.

Cheers,
Brent

I’m looking to put RT on FreeBSD box, but want to run it raid
5. So far
I’ve not found any SATA cards that the manufactures have drivers for.
What are others using?
Thanks,
Jason

3ware 8000 or 9000 series cards work great.

http://www.3ware.com

I’ve also used one of the Promise SATA RAID cards (can’t remember which
model offhand) and it works well too, but I highly prefer the 3ware card.
Its worth the extra $.

Indeed.
There’s a version of the 3DM monitoring-daemon for FreeBSD that will
send you an email when a drive starts to die.

Rainer
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