Joachim Schipper wrote:
I understand LSI comes highly recommended by people who should know.
Intel SRCS16 and LSI MegaRAID SATA controllers both attached by ami(4)
driver.
LSI is known to produce above the average equipment so they can be
desired. OTOH, Intel is not just another company. Love them or hate them
but they surely know how to do "good things" (but not necessarily always
produce them)
LSI discloses hardware details to programmers AFAIK but Intel is simply
not cooperative on this subject. Once upon a time they used to love BLOB
for their popular wireless networking products.
marco@ ported mfi(4) from FreeBSD. Which is LSI's SAS controller.
I don't know if he had access to any developer's manual but his blog
entry on undeadly tells us he liked the clean hardware design which
offloads the dirty work to the firmware.
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060519224204
If LSI is cheaper, buy it.
If LSI is unsignificantly more expensive, buy it again.
If Intel is way cheaper, buy it then.
That's my 2 cents.
