From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 26 22:43:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C611065683 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:43:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from poster.science.ru.nl (poster.science.ru.nl [131.174.30.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86BD8FC0A for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:43:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from smeltpunt.science.ru.nl (smeltpunt.science.ru.nl [131.174.16.145]) by poster.science.ru.nl (8.13.7/5.28) with ESMTP id m9QMQUE4014309 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:26:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from bacon.localnet ([81.69.166.221]) (authen=adridg) by smeltpunt.science.ru.nl (8.13.7/5.28) with ESMTP id m9QMQP4C008185 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:26:26 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot Organization: KDE e.V. To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:25:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.0 (KDE/4.1.0; ; ) References: <20081026204935.GA2429@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081026204935.GA2429@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810262325.45865.groot@kde.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.362 () AWL,BAYES_50,RDNS_NONE X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 131.174.16.145 Subject: Re: PCI-X SATA Card + Server Recommendation 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: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:43:03 -0000 On Sunday 26 October 2008 21:49:35 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Ouch. =A0I was thinking more along the lines of a dead-simple SATA card= in > > =A0 the under $50 range. =A0I'm not up at all on PCI-X stuff, but I ass= ume I > > can go with a normal PCI card, right? =A0Or 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" --=20 software raid, so easy to migrate, there's SiI3124-based cards. Addonics ma= kes=20 a 4-port PCI-X card which I ran in a 32-bit PCI slot for a while. Note that= =20 these don't do any kind of HW raid, so it might not be applicable at all (I= =20 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= =20 suppose that's 3124 again, but don't know). It's all the same architectural= ly,=20 and supported by ata(4). [ade]