HighPoint used to use cheap Marvell controllers, IIRC. I wouldn't seriously
recommend them.
Most people these days are using LSI cards of some form or another. There are
other vendors as well… but for SAS or SATA drives, I think LSI might be your
best bet. (Areca is another vendor that folks have had good results with, but
make sure its a supported card, not all of them are.)
- Garrett
On Oct 8, 2013, at 5:02 AM, Jonathan Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there, looking for some advice ...
>
> I have a colleague who has set up a new 4U rack box, we wanted to run
> Solaris/Illumos on it, but he bought a "HighPoint R750" card, which isn't
> currently supported ... it also has trouble with Wester Digital 4TB drives
> (sees about 5 and then gives up, unless you reboot after the drives are spun
> up, in which case it sees them all)
>
> I'm getting a bit edgy about the card, and was wondering if there was a
> better manufacturer, or specific card that people would advise on going to,
> without a huge increase in cost.
>
> http://www.scan.co.uk/products/40-port-highpoint-rocket-750-10x-mini-sas-ports-for-a-total-upto-40x-sata-hdd-using-6gb-s-connection
>
> Thanks in advance for advice :)
>
> Jon
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