suggestions for SATA RAID cards

[Jo Rhett]

> Jo Rhett wrote:
>> 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 Sep 7, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> I did have a little bother getting through to the dev's for
> support with a disk compatibility issue but once I located
> the right person highpoint support was very good.

How did you locate them?  Highpoint support told us that a third  
party did the freebsd driver and that they had no intention of  
supporting it.

FYI, several people have claimed that the 1820a is "hardware" -- this  
is untrue.  It's hardware accelerated, but all of the raid logic is  
in the driver.  It's sludgeware", not hardware raid.  Performance  
tests against a real hardware raid adapter will demonstrate what I mean.

-- 
Jo Rhett
senior geek
Silicon Valley Colocation