Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:35:35 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PCI-E SATA-III HBA for FreeBSD 10 Message-ID: <CAFHbX1J5pJVtKiXb8KWFdXLZcHz2ex4F629rUeJOY8LR4Y=B9w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140817171554.GB7997@codelibre.net>
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote: > 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. > Cards supported by mps(4), eg LSI SAS2008 based cards, are very well supported and very fast. Flash to "IT mode" for use with ZFS. Cheers Tomhome | help
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