Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:25:45 +0100 From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI-X SATA Card + Server Recommendation Message-ID: <200810262325.45865.groot@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <20081026204935.GA2429@icarus.home.lan> References: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0810260112010.4630@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <Pine.OSX.4.64.0810261502011.4630@toasty.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> <20081026204935.GA2429@icarus.home.lan>
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On Sunday 26 October 2008 21:49:35 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Ouch. I was thinking more along the lines of a dead-simple SATA card in > > the under $50 range. I'm not up at all on PCI-X stuff, but I assume I > > can go with a normal PCI card, right? Or 64-bit PCI (or is that PCI-X)? > > What kind of performance hit would I have going from a PCI-X card to > > something else, and if I remove the PCI-X restriction, is there another > > recommended card? In the "cheap and it seems functional in my 4-drive GEOM mirror setup" -- software raid, so easy to migrate, there's SiI3124-based cards. Addonics makes a 4-port PCI-X card which I ran in a 32-bit PCI slot for a while. Note that these don't do any kind of HW raid, so it might not be applicable at all (I haven't read this entire thread). There's also a 2-port 3132 based PCIe x1 card and a 4-port PCIe x4 card (I suppose that's 3124 again, but don't know). It's all the same architecturally, and supported by ata(4). [ade]
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