From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Feb 10 21:22:35 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E60244DAE for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:22:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [184.105.128.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "xray.he.net", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48Gf4p3Wvdz44hM for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:22:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from 99.100.19.101 ([99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com with ESMTPSA (ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:TLSv1.2:Kx=ECDH:Au=RSA:Enc=AESGCM(128):Mac=AEAD) (SMTP-AUTH username dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, mechanism PLAIN) for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:22:32 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Christensen Subject: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:22:28 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48Gf4p3Wvdz44hM X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dpchrist@holgerdanske.com has no SPF policy when checking 184.105.128.27) smtp.mailfrom=dpchrist@holgerdanske.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.69 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.998,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.59)[ipnet: 184.104.0.0/15(0.66), asn: 6939(-3.58), country: US(-0.05)]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.998,0]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[holgerdanske.com]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[27.128.105.184.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.10.0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6939, ipnet:184.104.0.0/15, country:US]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:22:35 -0000 freebsd-questions: I have a system with an Intel DQ67SW desktop board: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/motherboards/desktop/dq67sw/dq67sw_techprodspec02.pdf It has the following expansion slots: - One PCI Express 2.0 x16 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x4 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x1 add-in card connector - One Conventional PCI bus connector I need more SATA III 6 Gb/s ports and am looking for a HBA: 1. I would prefer using PCIe x4 slot, but can use the x16 slot. 2. Non-RAID. 3. At least four SATA ports. 4. Can handle sustained loads of ~250 MB/s across all SATA ports simultaneously. 5. Works OOTB with FreeBSD 12.1, Debian 9, and Debian 10. 6. Works OOTB with SeaToolsBootable_RC_2.1.2. 7. New or used. My research thus far: 1. LSI products are popular, but: a. Most seem to be PCIe x8. b. STFW I see more than a few posts complaining about changing firmware from RAID to non-RAID, buggy firmware releases, and/or motherboard BIOS/UEFI incompatibilities with the flash tools. 2. Syba offers products: https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=64_181_85&filter=38,74 a. While migrating backup data, I recently saw a Syba PCIe x1 two port SATA II 3 Gb/s HBA model SD-SA2PEX-2IR throttling under sustained load -- it ran at 80-100 MB/s for 4-5 minutes, then at ~7 MB/s for two hours. Unacceptable. Comments? David