Hi Gary, Thanks for this information - looks like I'm going to be investing in one of these cards as well :-)...
best regards, tom On 5/9/07, Gary D. Margiotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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