Artem Belevich wrote: > aoc-sat2-mv8 was somewhat slower compared to ICH9 or LSI1068 > controllers when I tried it with 6 and 8 disks. > I think the problem is that MV8 only does 32K per transfer and that > does seem to matter when you have 8 drives hooked up to it. I don't > have hard numbers, but peak throughput of MV8 with 8-disk raidz2 was > noticeably lower than that of LSI1068 in the same configuration. Both > LSI1068 and MV2 were on the same PCI-X bus. It could be a driver > limitation. The driver for Marvel SATA controllers in NetBSD seems a > bit more advanced compared to what's in FreeBSD.
I also wouldn't recommend to use Marvell 88SXx0xx controllers now. While potentially they are interesting, lack of documentation and numerous hardware bugs make existing FreeBSD driver very limited there. > I wish intel would make cheap multi-port PCIe SATA card based on their > AHCI controllers. Indeed. Intel on-board AHCI SATA controllers are fastest from all I have tested. Unluckily, they are not producing discrete versions. :( Now, if discrete solution is really needed, I would still recommend SiI3124, but with proper PCI-X 64bit/133MHz bus or built-in PCIe x8 bridge. They are fast and have good new siis driver. > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Pete French > <petefre...@ticketswitch.com> wrote: >>> I like to use pci-x with aoc-sat2-mv8 cards or pci-e cards....that way you >>> get a lot more bandwidth.. >> I would goalong with that - I have precisely the same controller, with >> a pair of eSATA drives, running ZFS mirrored. But I get a nice 100 >> meg/second out of them if I try. My controller is, however on PCI-X, not >> PCI. It's a shame PCI-X appears to have gone the way of the dinosaur :-( -- Alexander Motin _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"