S?bastien Wacquiez wrote (ao): > Sander wrote: > > What SAS (or SATA) controller do you use or recommend in combination > > with a SSD and BTRFS? > > I'm looking for a non-RAID controller with four or eight ports and > > of course full Linux support. > > I don't have any ssd yet, but if you want cheap card without hardware > raid, you could look at those : > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USASLP-L8i.cfm > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm > > You'll need to revert the bracket as they're designed to be in a > supermicro UIO slot (In fact, they are just standart PCIe card upside > down). They use the mptsas driver in linux which works ok for a long > time, and can be found for ~ 130$. It work pretty fast (~ 800 Mo/s with > a 8 drives raid10f2 in my brand new nehalem server). > > You can also find this one for ~ 120 bucks : > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SASLP-MV8.cfm > > No proprietary slot this time, the chipset is supported in 2.6.30 (but I > haven't tested it yet) via the mvsas drivers. > > Hope you find this usefull.
Very useful, much appreciated, thanks! I think I go for a Marvell based controller (again), as Marvell chips seem to have quite a history when it comes to open source drivers. No more Adaptec .. Thanks again Sebastien. With kind regards, Sander -- Humilis IT Services and Solutions http://www.humilis.net -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html