freebsd stable - Jul 2005 - Q: Looking for a recommendation for hardware RAID cards and FreeBSD

Greetings,

 	I am looking at purchasing a 3ware SATA 8006-2LP RAID (SATA) 
controllers for a servers running FreeBSD 5.4-stable.  Is anyone out there 
using a SATA 3ware RAID controller card on FreeBSD and would be willing 
share their experiences, good, bad, or otherwise?
 	3ware has done well by me with my Linux boxes, but I am willing to 
consider other vendors if they have a better product.

 	Thanks,

John H. Nyhuis
Sr. Computer Specialist
Dept. of Pediatrics
HS RR349B, Box 356320
University of Washington
Desk: (206)-685-3884
cabal@u.washington.edu

On July 14, 2005 11:33 am, J. Nyhuis wrote:
>  	I am looking at purchasing a 3ware SATA 8006-2LP RAID (SATA)
> controllers for a servers running FreeBSD 5.4-stable.  Is anyone out
> there using a SATA 3ware RAID controller card on FreeBSD and would be
> willing share their experiences, good, bad, or otherwise?
>  	3ware has done well by me with my Linux boxes, but I am willing to
> consider other vendors if they have a better product.
I've heard great things about the 9000-series from 3Ware on the -current 
and -stable mailing lists.  There's even vendor support (FreeBSD drivers, 
CLI management, web management, etc) from 3Ware, as well as the 3dm ports 
and native drivers.

We're using a handful of Escalade 7506 cards with great success.  We were 
going to use 9000-series cards in our new servers, but the local vendors 
have an 8-week backorder on them.  So we're using LSI MegaRAID 6-port SATA 
cards instead.
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