http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2011/04/27/7673.html
Areca is well supported by OpenBSD (from man page), you might have to bring in some functionality from FreeBSD. I have no experience with modern cards, but I will be keeping Areca in mind for future. I have used old Dell Percs RAID controllers and somewhat newer LSI, they were good. Thanks On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I just went halfway through the "build your own custom kernel, >>> manually configure partition tables, etc., etc." rituals to set up >>> software RAID for OpenBSD 4.8, and have concluded that it's not >>> economical the engineering time to do all that manual work for >>> something available in hardware. >>> >>> So, I'm looking for modest servers simply act as a locked down >>> external SSH server. I can lock down the OpenSSH pretty thoroughly, >>> I'm just looking for modest, known-compatible server hardware. Any >>> good recommendations? The listings for RAID compatibility include a >>> lot of higher end cards, and for this application, RAID 1 is plenty. >>> >>> >> >> Be sure to buy two of them, for when the RAID card fails. >> > > My prepositions also seem to have run shrieking for the hills while > writing that note. My English is usually better than that.... > > This is a fair point, and I did intend to buy several for various > other uses as well. I'm looking at replacing/upgrading a set of > hardware, so standardizing on hardware and keeping several hosts > compatible with robust OpenBSD is reasonable. I'd like to start it > right: even though the software RAID is available, I found the very > helpful server compatibility list at > http://www.armorlogic.com/openbsd-information-server-compatibility-list.html, > and the RAID compatible chipset list at > http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware. > > Problem is, the twain don't easily meet. I don't need RAID6, just > RAID1, and drilling down through server specs to find whether they're > compatible is.... fairly painful. And for the server compatibility > list, a lot of those aren't being manufactured anymore, or are way, > way more server than I need. (I just need pizza boxes, not > virtualizaton clustering servers.) > > So, I'm looking for recommendations. Modest 1U pizza boxes? Even brand > names for known-good PCI or PCIe SATA controllers would be helpful, > rather than having to chew through the chipsets. (Been there done > that, lots of vendors keep it really obscured, and my old favorite > 3Ware got bought by LSI.....)
