Good 8 ports SATA Controller

I highly recommend searching for IBM m1015 on ebay. It's being sold for 70-120 USD
If you do not need support for 2+TB capacity then the IBM br10 will do well and goes for around 30 USD on ebay.

I use http://jetcarrier.com for shipping, they are available for norwegian, swedish and danish residents.
 
Terry_Kennedy said:
One thing to watch out for is that many of the Supermicro cards use the UIO format, which is unique to Supermicro. According to this Supermicro page, those are the ones with model numbers starting with "AOC-U" (U for UIO).

The UIO cards will work in regular (non-UIO) slots, but the bracket won't be in the expected position for a normal expansion card. People have come up with various ways to deal with this, ranging from removing the bracket and hoping the card doesn't fall out all the way to making a whole new bracket.
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I were sure I seen that somewhere and can't find the link, but here it is. You can go here http://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Keystone-Electronics/9203/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMsQtlBhqKq43bjBhDwhG44Z and buy a bracket specially made for theses cards.

It come from a mailing list from opensolaris http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2010-May/040867.html.

And that it's great :)


As an alternative, you can go with the cards from lsi or intel and just flash the firmware.
 
Migelo said:
Which PCI (not PCIe) controller would you suggest I should get that works perfect with FreeBSD?
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Promise cards work. I had one in my home box for a bit, before upgrading to a mobo with AHCI onboard.

There's also some Silicon Image cards that are okay. SiI3124 and newer at least.

There's one model number to avoid, though: SiI3114.
 
phoenix said:
Promise cards work. I had one in my home box for a bit, before upgrading to a mobo with AHCI onboard.

There's also some Silicon Image cards that are okay. There's one model number to avoid, though. I don't remember it exactly, but I think it's the 3124.
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Probably the one to avoid is the 3114, see http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=29435.

I have a couple of 3124 cards which seem to work pretty well: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124027

That same chip is used for PCIe, PCI-X, and plain PCI boards. Latest BIOS can be found on the Silicon Image web site.
 
Yeah, looks like you're right. Thanks for the pointer. I got three of the four numbers right, though. :)

Avoid the SiL3114 chipset. :)
 
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