Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 18:15:54 +0100 From: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: PCI-E SATA-III HBA for FreeBSD 10 Message-ID: <20140817171554.GB7997@codelibre.net>
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Hi, I'm looking for a low-profile SATA-III adapter to put in an HP N40L microserver running FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE. I'd like to use a set of SSDs with it for ZFS ZIL and L2ARC as well as for the main system. I briefly tried a StarTech PEXSAT34SFF adapter with a Marvell 88SE9230 controller: http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/HDD-Controllers/SATA-Cards/PCI-Express-SATA-III-RAID-Controller-Card-Mini-SAS-SFF-8087~PEXSAT34SFF ahci0: <Marvell 88SE9230 AHCI SATA controller> port 0xe800-0xe807,0xe400-0xe403,0xe000-0xe007,0xd800-0xd803,0xd400-0xd41f mem 0xfe8ff800-0xfe8fffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci2 ahci0: AHCI v1.20 with 8 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier not supported ahci0: quirks=0x800<ALTSIG> However, I had to return it due to a couple of faults: the SFF-8087 cable was broken for one port, and it wouldn't work in the microserver in combination with an Icy Dock SATA backplane. Its performance was also pretty bad; on Linux I'm getting 475 MB/s from an SSD using the native SATA III ports on the mainboard. This was 320 MB/s with the adapter. FreeBSD only got 90 MB/s with the adapter which was a bit disappointing! While the card and cable here were not operating correctly, I'd be interested to know any good recommendations for a SATA-III adapter which works well with FreeBSD 10, and with decent performance. Thanks, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800
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