Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-04-14 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: 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

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-06 Thread Christopher Key
Graeme Dargie wrote: -Original Message- From: Elliot Finley [mailto:efinleyw...@efinley.com] 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

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-06 Thread Christopher Key
Daan Vreeken wrote: Hi Christopher, On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:25:35 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

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-06 Thread Daan Vreeken
On Friday 06 March 2009 13:43:35 Christopher Key wrote: Daan Vreeken wrote: Hi Christopher, On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:25:35 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

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Elliot Finley
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

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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. or use geom based RAIDs and UFS thanks for URL, anyway new

RE: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Elliot Finley [mailto:efinleyw...@efinley.com] Sent: 05 March 2009 17:57 To: Christopher Key Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3) Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm looking to substantially expand the storage on my

Re: SATA Port Multipliers in FreeBSD (6.3)

2009-03-05 Thread Daan Vreeken
Hi Christopher, On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:25:35 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