I use one cheap pci controller sata sil 3114 4 ports on my storage and is no so bad for a 14U$ card but this controller is slow not pass than 26 MB / s on a scrub and sata 150 no NCQ is a is a simple server for a backup server
A change a motherboard for one ecs a780 2 gb ram and and 5000+ CPU and on board nvidia sata, speed surprise me. On 4 drivers seagate sata 1500 gb 7200.11 on zraid 1 a speeds up to 130MB/s on scrub 3TB On my second server a try put one better controller on a Asus crosshair 1 a try put two of this LSI SAS3442E-R a found a article talking of that controller and sounds interesting good Cost for a 8 ports card i try this configuration 12 drives on raidz2 and zip on 2 x 32 gb sad corsairbextreme x32 , 1 cache 32 gb ssd corsair extreme x32 and 1 spare drive http://jmlittle.blogspot.com/2008/06/recommended-disk-controllers-for-zfs.html If you can spend on better card buy it and be happy. I'm wrong on thinking a high cost card is better than single card on non ultra mega raid cache. -- - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - <----. Of course it runs William David Armstrong <----|========================== Bio Systems Security Networking <----' FreeBSD MSN / GT biosystems gmail . com http://biosystems.ath.cx:8080/ http://biosystems.broker.freenet6.net/ -------------------------------------- Em 13/12/2010, às 03:50, "Alex Smith (K4RNT)" <[email protected]> escreveu: > I'm looking for PCI-E x1 SATA HBAs - any suggestions on ones that > would work out of the box with OpenIndiana and related distros? I've > been tracking chipsets as they come out for other things, but not > storage. > > I hope to repurpose my current desktop as a file server and general > purpose server in a home hobbyist setting. Are there any other options > besides x8 PCI-E HBAs out there? I'm not sure what current Silicon > Image controllers work. > > Thanks in advance! :) > > -- > " ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech > censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, > chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron > Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is > trodden on we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron > Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" > - Alex Smith (K4RNT) > - Murfreesboro, Tennessee USA > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
