-----Original Message----- From: Elliot Finley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 05 March 2009 17:57 To: Christopher Key Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)
Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my FreeBSD 6.3 home > media server. With regards hardware, the simplest way to attach large > numbers of drives seem to be to use SATA port multipliers, but I've been > unable to find any consensus on their level of support in FreeBSD. I'm > currently looking at a RocketRAID 2314 and SiI3726 based port > multipliers. Has any had any experience with this combination? Why not just upgrade to 7-Stable and then use these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009 they cost less than port multipliers. They don't do RAID, but then if you're on 7-Stable, you can use ZFS zraid. Elliot _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" I had utter hell with a belkin pci sata card which used a silicon image chipset. The main problem would show up when writing a large amount of data to the drives which were in a zfs array. I even tried this card on 3 different motherboards with various combinations of sata hard disks and the result was the same when writing a large amount of data, a drive would randomly disconnect from the system. I understand from reading sata controllers based on a promise chipset are much better under freebsd 7. In then end I trumped for a new motherboard with 6 sata ports on it and it is running 6 x 500gb drives in a ZFS array just perfectly. Regards Graeme _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
