on Mon Jun 16 2008, "James Dinkel" <jdinkel-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. Thanks for clarifying. >>> 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. I have 2 PCIe slots, so that might be the way to go. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
