Hi, i will soon be migrating 12 drive hardware 3ware raid6 to 18 drive raid60 using zfs (raid60 meaning 3 x 6 raid 6). I need a pci-express card that can handle 16 drives (the rest can be plugged into the mobo for a total of 20 drives.)
I won't be using it for hardware raid so it doesn't need any of that, plus it must be able to export drives directly to the system so that the raw drives can be moved to a different server later, I know that my 3ware card doesn't let you do that because creating a single drive is in effect an array with 3ware meta on it and will destroy the contents of that drive.
Obviously it needs to be compatible with FreeBSD 8.0+ and if im spending this much on a new system I don't want a super cheat sata card that will push 18 drives through a single sata channel. I was able to achieve 1gb/s on my 3ware card.
Thanks
I won't be using it for hardware raid so it doesn't need any of that, plus it must be able to export drives directly to the system so that the raw drives can be moved to a different server later, I know that my 3ware card doesn't let you do that because creating a single drive is in effect an array with 3ware meta on it and will destroy the contents of that drive.
Obviously it needs to be compatible with FreeBSD 8.0+ and if im spending this much on a new system I don't want a super cheat sata card that will push 18 drives through a single sata channel. I was able to achieve 1gb/s on my 3ware card.
Thanks