Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:22:04 +0100 From: Vladimir Konrad <v.konrad@lse.ac.uk> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> Cc: Benny Goemans <benny.goemans@telenet.be>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sil3114 versus sil3114a Message-ID: <1129299724.1317.85.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20051014091016.J71298@kerplunk.tbe.net> References: <1129279679.1317.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <003b01c5d0a3$a6250da0$0200a8c0@bennypc> <1129283233.1315.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051014091016.J71298@kerplunk.tbe.net>
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> I would highly recommend the HighPoint 18x0 series of controllers. I=20
> believe the 1810 is a 4-port, and the 1820 is an 8-port SATA card. I jus=
t=20
> installed an 1820 (just over $200 at NewEgg) on an old PII-400 dual cpu=20
> machine, and it is insanely fast. I have 4 320GB WD drives attached to i=
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> in RAID5 config.
is the man page for the driver out of sync (5.4, 6-current) ?:
HARDWARE
The hptmv driver supports the following ATA RAID controllers:
=B7 HighPoint's RocketRAID 182x series
so it does suport 18x0 and 18x0A (that is my understanding from the
posts)? (it does according to highpoint but not according to the man
page)
i was not planning to buy hardware raid solution but the price is not
that bad (considering that i can plug it to the existing machine now and
having it running in a new motherboard later).
> The HPT card was detected by 5.4-RELEASE right out of the box, no=20
> tinkering needed. I installed the OS onto the RAID5 volume, and was up=20
> and running in under an hour.
great.
> Did I mention it's insanely fast? It's running in a standard PCI slot,=20
> since my motherboard is old, and doesn't have any 64 bit PCI slots, but=20
> the card is OK with that, it's backwards compatible to normal 32 bit slot=
s=20
> for folks like me. IF you have a new motherboard with 64 bit slots, I ca=
n=20
> only imagine how fast it would be with > 6 year old hardware.
well, the card is likely to move to and AMD64 bit machine i am planning
to buy in about a year.
> For the price, camparitively to a 3Ware card, I think it's one of the=20
> absolute best value/performance cards I've seen out there so far.
>=20
> -Gary
thank you all very much for responding, especially pointing to me that
the sil chip-sets are not that good. it would be great if the (S)ATA
maintainer summarised his opinions somewhere ;-).
vlad
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