From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 03:02:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44EB716A422 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:02:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA32543D58 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:02:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1FP9uW-00004F-Qs; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:02:52 -0700 In-Reply-To: <035101c6545c$6011c6e0$0502a8c0@mobile1> References: <035101c6545c$6011c6e0$0502a8c0@mobile1> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <5F1267A9-EAC2-4E6B-9F17-13827E40ADD4@shire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:02:51 -0700 To: "Richard P. Koett" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.3) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Liste FreeBSD Subject: Re: SiI3112 Controller Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:02:54 -0000 On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Richard P. Koett wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote: >>> Some quick questions: >>> >>> 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? >> >> They suck. >> They are horrible. >> They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after >> you add in all the aggravation they provide. >> >> Don't waste your time on them. Buy a real SATA >> controller. (disclaimer: I am only commenting on >> their SATA controllers) >> >>> I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead >>> but was planning to use that elsewhere. >> >> Unfortunately I don't know enough to comment on other >> alternatives. I dumped my SiI3112 SATA controller >> and bought a real controller as made by Promise, but >> there are probably a number of other good options. > > Well, the HPT controller is not what I'd call *real* RAID > either but it's lying around so I'll give it a try. If you want a somewhat reasonably priced "real" raid controller, the LSI MegaRaid SATA-4 150 (or some name like that) is around $225 or so and works pretty well Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net