On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:00 PM, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Duh, for some reason I didn't catch his drift before. Now I think he > was suggesting that I use a card with the same controller chip as my > onboard SATA because I know it works. (Sorry, James!) >
That was just ONE possible suggestion. I would do that or go with the other guys' suggestions of a Silicon Image card. > >> The main drawback of pci sata is IIRC the maximum bandwidth of >> the pci bus is roughly 80 MiB/s. > > Oof. I suppose there's no getting around a limitation like that > one... hmm, is there an SATA controller I can drive with firewire? What > people who care about performance do when their onboard SATA fills up? > Buy an external SATA drive cage that runs over firewire (or some such > thing?) > Go with a PCI Express card, if your motherboard will support it. James -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
