From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 14:35:15 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 1B65716A41F for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:35:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from V.Konrad@lse.ac.uk) Received: from exic6.lse.ac.uk (exic6.lse.ac.uk [158.143.217.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6283243D49 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 14:35:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from V.Konrad@lse.ac.uk) Received: from ExF1.lse.ac.uk ([158.143.216.11]) by exic6.lse.ac.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:35:13 +0100 Received: exchange.lse.ac.uk 158.143.216.11 from 158.143.216.102 158.143.216.102 via HTTP with MS-WebStorage 6.0.6249 Received: 158.143.216.102 158.143.216.102 from 158.143.116.174 158.143.116.174 via HTTP with MS-WebStorage 6.0.6249 Received: from whirpool.lse.ac.uk by exchange.lse.ac.uk; 14 Oct 2005 15:22:04 +0100 From: Vladimir Konrad To: "Gary D. Margiotta" 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:22:04 +0100 Message-Id: <1129299724.1317.85.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Oct 2005 14:35:13.0089 (UTC) FILETIME=[7C847B10:01C5D0CC] Cc: Benny Goemans , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 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 14:35:15 -0000 > 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= t=20 > 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