On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:06:04PM +0100, Rogier Krieger wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> a friend of mine and I are thinking a BSD (NetBSD or FreeBSD) system
> and would like to have RAID-1 hardware. Preferably, an affordable
> S-ATA RAID version. So far, we're wondering which controller would be
> a good choice.
> 
> What we've come up with so far are the Adaptec 1210SA S-ATA RAID
> controller and a Promise S150 TX2Plus RAID which seem affordable. I
> have some experience with 3Ware's Escalade models, but they are
> rather expensive. Hence our search for alternatives.

The promise is software RAID, not hardware. I think the adaptec is too.
If you're going to use software RAID, any SATA adapter will do it.

Hardware raid *is* expensive.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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