From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 27 18:19:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from pegasus.com (unknown [209.84.70.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DD7114C1C for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 18:19:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@pegasus.com) Received: by pegasus.com (8.6.8/PEGASUS-2.2) id PAA24186; Thu, 27 May 1999 15:18:54 -1001 Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:18:54 -1001 From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Message-Id: <199905280119.PAA24186@pegasus.com> In-Reply-To: William Maddox "Re: Support for Symbios vs. Adaptect SCSI" (May 27, 3:41pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for Symbios vs. Adaptect SCSI Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org } > In general, the PCI interface on the Adaptec chips is unsurpassed } > in the industry. } ... } } This is very helpful information. It does make it clear that Adaptec } makes sense at the high end. You get what you pay for, etc... I've seen test reports in the past that place the Symbios controllers at a slight speed *advantage* over Adaptec. (Sorry no references, too long ago.) Yes, the drivers could easily be the controlling factor. By most reports the Symbios controllers are very good, and not nearly as absurdly priced as Adaptec. Symbios chips can be found embeded in everything from workstations and pc's to large RAID units. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message