Hi Gary,
Thanks for your comments - I've found a Highpoint 1640 card at an
interesting price - 4 ports, so I have room to expand in the future. Any
gotchas with this card as opposed to the 1542 that you've recommended?
No gotcha's at all. I have a bunch of 1640's sitting on the shelf that I
just got a good deal on, and I've already rolled a few of them out. They
work pretty well for my needs, light e-mail, webserver, file server, etc.
I will mention this - in my experience, the CPU utilization on a Windows
system will be much higher comparitively than a BSD system running these
cards. I have a couple windows file servers which hit about 6MB/s file
transfers at about 40% CPU utilization, meanwhile similarly configured BSD
systems will push 8-9MB/s at about 20-30% utilization. Now, these are
older systems (AMD Athlons at around 1Ghz), but it is nice to see how well
the BSD systems work, especially on older hardware.
-Gary
best regards,
tom
On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:45:14AM +0200, Thomas Fischer wrote:
>>
>> Since I'm going to be accessing these files when I'm running under both
>> Windows and FreeBSD, the geom/gmirror solution won't work for
me. Would
>> anyone be able to advise me on an inexpensive SATA RAID card that would
be
>> well supported by FreeBSD? I don't need anything fancy - just
something
>> with 2 SATA ports capable of doing RAID-1, and which is (well)
supported by
>> FreeBSD (and Windows).
>
> SATA and not SATA II? If so, then anything with the Sil 3112 chipset or
> similar would work:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815104219
Go for a Highpoint card, something like the 1542, I've got a bunch in
both windows and freebsd machines, and they work rather well. They're not
the speediest cards, but I've not had a DOA or a failure yet with them,
and they just work.
I'd personally stay away from the Sil chipsets, the newer ones aren't as
bad, but I've seen a lot of not-nice things about those cards from Soren
in the past, and being that he's the ATA maintainer, I'd take his advice
pretty seriously.
-Gary
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