Re: SATA Host Adapter Recommendation

2011-05-22 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 21, 2011 7:26:22 PM -0700, Jason C. Wells is alleged to have said: I am looking to get 2 sata host adapters. The mandatory requirements are good freebsd support and hot swap capability. I plan to use gmirror. I have discovered that my onboard chipsets don't support hot swap.

SATA Host Adapter Recommendation

2011-05-21 Thread Jason C. Wells
I am looking to get 2 sata host adapters. The mandatory requirements are good freebsd support and hot swap capability. I plan to use gmirror. I have discovered that my onboard chipsets don't support hot swap. The highpoint cards are rated highly on newegg. Are these good with freebsd?

Re: SATA Host Adapter Recommendation

2011-05-21 Thread Rob
I have a Highpoint 4-port PCI-E 4x card in a server that has worked well for a few years. It's a bit pricey, but I've had no problems with it. Recently, I've gotten 3 Rosewill RC-218 cards because they're much cheaper and I don't need the RAID functionality on other cards. I'm building