Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:10:36 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Subject: Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux Message-ID: <20090930141036.0000184b@unknown> In-Reply-To: <1254304611.2268.962.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <20090930060202.45527.qmail@avocado.salatschuessel.net> <200909301646.35019.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20090930075357.49914.qmail@avocado.salatschuessel.net> <1254304611.2268.962.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:56:51 -0500 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > Daniel O'Connor writes: > > > > > In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it > > > worked fine. > > > > I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-Chil too because > > they are kinda cheap and another system I intend to use with SATA > > harddisks has no SATA on-board. But then I searched through the web > > and read many posts telling me "stay away from Silicon Image > > controllers" so I did as advised.... > > > > I got a Promise SATA300 TX2plus instead. I'll rune some tests with > > later (when I'm back home ;)) > > I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is > performing relative to other implementations. I ran the tiobench test on -CURRENT a few days ago and the ahci driver showed an improvement in latency over the ata driver; I didn't test transfer rates though. -- Bruce
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