suggestions for SATA RAID cards

[Jo Rhett]

However keep in mind that Highpoint support is nearly clueless.  When the
1820a first shipped we were unable to find anyone on staff that knew what
FreeBSD was, or how to read a problem report.

No experience with Areca.  3ware is very clueful and capable.

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:23:00AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good
> for its price and the later cards have better performance still apparently.
> N.B. Use the min stripe size when creating the array for max performance
> with this card under FreeBSD.
> 
>    Steve
> 
> Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've ran into sort of a snag with building a 2T file server.
> >Given all the good press here for 3ware and the talk to the guys at
> >the CeBIT I decided to go for a 9550SX-LP8.
> >With that I bought a ASUS serverboard: K8N-LR with 165 dual core
> >opteron. 
> >
> >In itself is this a combo that I thing would do for a long time at my
> >home. ;) 
> >
> >However the 3ware controler decided not to play nice with 2 of the
> >PCI-X boards I have here. It gets stuck in the bios disc scan. I've
> >RMA-ed the card, but my guess is that it'll take a too long a time to
> >fix/replace it for my patience.
> >
> >So I'm looking for alternatives with good support under amd64. I've
> >seen that the Adaptecs are supported under aac(4). But what about
> >Promisse or Highpoint RAID controllers?
> 
> 
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