From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 14:09:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8917B16A41F for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:09:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tuliogs@pgt.mpt.gov.br) Received: from mail.pgt.mpt.gov.br (mail.pgt.mpt.gov.br [200.157.62.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D736E43D48 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:09:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tuliogs@pgt.mpt.gov.br) Received: from [10.0.0.136] (516e.pgt.mpt.gov.br [10.0.0.136]) by mail.pgt.mpt.gov.br (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9EE9svb072464 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:09:54 -0300 (BRST) (envelope-from tuliogs@pgt.mpt.gov.br) Message-ID: <434FBC38.5020602@pgt.mpt.gov.br> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:10:00 -0300 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tulio_Guimar=E3es_da_Silva?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <1129279679.1317.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <003b01c5d0a3$a6250da0$0200a8c0@bennypc> <1129283233.1315.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051014091016.J71298@kerplunk.tbe.net> In-Reply-To: <20051014091016.J71298@kerplunk.tbe.net> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000203080707040906030401" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: sil3114 versus sil3114a X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:09:57 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000203080707040906030401 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > [snip] > I would highly recommend the HighPoint 18x0 series of controllers. I > believe the 1810 is a 4-port, and the 1820 is an 8-port SATA card. I > just installed an 1820 (just over $200 at NewEgg) on an old PII-400 > dual cpu machine, and it is insanely fast. I have 4 320GB WD drives > attached to it in RAID5 config. Highpoint has some reasonable RAID and multiport IDE and SATA cards, and Iīd bet the 18x0 series would be a good shot, since I already work with them. Itīs natively supported by FreeBSD 5.4, and has additional support from Highpoint, what I consider a great thing, specially for management features. But if youīre going with 1820, I suggest you to get a 1820A, īcause it has an onboard XOR processor which speeds up things a bit AND frees some CPU usage on RAID5 (important on not-so-new CPUs). ;). However, if you donīt need RAID5, there are other options from Highpoint itself, but I donīt have a clue about prices. I would only not suggest vinum on RAID5 unless you have a really good machine (at least hyperthreaded), because it drains quite a bit from the CPU, but if itīs for personal use, or a low-end server, that could fit. > > The HPT card was detected by 5.4-RELEASE right out of the box, no > tinkering needed. I installed the OS onto the RAID5 volume, and was > up and running in under an hour. > > Did I mention it's insanely fast? It's running in a standard PCI > slot, since my motherboard is old, and doesn't have any 64 bit PCI > slots, but the card is OK with that, it's backwards compatible to > normal 32 bit slots for folks like me. IF you have a new motherboard > with 64 bit slots, I can only imagine how fast it would be with > 6 > year old hardware. In a last thought, speed will greately depend on the hardware youīre using (mobo, CPU, disks etc.), but theyīre indeed quite good. I really hadnīt noticed the backwards compatibility in the specs, but itīs a nice feature - youīll really like it if someday you can afford a 64bit, 133MHz motherboard. :) And, as for reliability, i have two 1820A running rock-solid, 24/7, beside me, on 2 HP ML110 machines. Itīs too early to say, since it hasnīt been yet 6 months, but we havenīt had a single issue, even when we decided to play with hot-swap. :) Have luck, Tulio G. da Silva --------------000203080707040906030401--