Anything with the Silicon Image 3132 in it will work quite well. Search for that and you should find a bunch of PCIe x 1 cards that use the chip. Provides two SATA ports (internal or external, depending on the card).
-Matt On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:43 PM, ejc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Swapcache will speed up accesses to the external disk very nicely, but >> not have much of an effect on write performance. But writes are already >> buffered to some degree, and NFS clients usually flush modifies files on >> close() for safety reasons (which might be why you see some latency). That >> can often be turned off on the client but I do not recommend doing so. >> >> The main problem with USB-attached drives is that the I/Os are basically >> serialized, so random access performance is going to be horrible. For a >> server you really need a SATA attached drive. Swapcache will improve >> random access performance though once things get cached. >> >> > Speaking of which, does anyone have a recommendation for an eSATA card or > chipset to look for that works well with DragonFly? I've been using USB > drives for backups, but want to switch to something a little faster and > more reliable. My computers don't have any extra internal SATA ports free > so I need an expansion card. > > Thanks, > Eric > > > -- > "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, > then names the streets after them." -- Bill Vaughn >
