From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 9 01:58:15 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 D386116A41F for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:58:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from outbound0.sv.meer.net (outbound0.sv.meer.net [205.217.152.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8779D43D46 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2005 01:58:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by outbound0.sv.meer.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id jA91kNQs056808; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:46:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: from mail.meer.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/meer) with ESMTP id jA91kM5E006121; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:46:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@mail.meer.net) Received: (from jrhett@localhost) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) id jA91kMDP006120; Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:46:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 17:46:22 -0800 From: Joe Rhett To: "Gary D. Margiotta" Message-ID: <20051109014622.GC33989@svcolo.com> References: <1129279679.1317.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <003b01c5d0a3$a6250da0$0200a8c0@bennypc> <1129283233.1315.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051014091016.J71298@kerplunk.tbe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051014091016.J71298@kerplunk.tbe.net> Organization: svcolo.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Benny Goemans , Vladimir Konrad 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: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:58:15 -0000 On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:15:35AM -0400, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > I would highly recommend the HighPoint 18x0 series of controllers. I > believe the 1810 is a 4-port, and the 1820 is an 8-port SATA card. I just > installed an 1820 (just over $200 at NewEgg) on an old PII-400 dual cpu > machine, and it is insanely fast. I have 4 320GB WD drives attached to it > in RAID5 config. Really? They install just fine, but every time I tried to verify or rebuild an array they would freeze the system on me. Highpoint support was basically absent at the keyboard -- they not only didn't have an answer, they couldn't think of any way for me to gather information to provide to them. They kept sending me back weird messages like "the developer is aware of this and there's nothing we can do", followed by wondering what kind of problem I was seeing. > For the price, camparitively to a 3Ware card, I think it's one of the > absolute best value/performance cards I've seen out there so far. Just FYI, all RAID functions are handled by the kernel driver. There's no RAID hardware, it's all being done in the freebsd driver. That's why it is so cheap. -- Joe Rhett senior geek SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation