[geeks] Anyone use this SATA controller in a PC

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Another card that looks interesting (since it is only $30 ;^) is this
> one:
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132013
> 
> It has on-board RAID (including hot spare), but it is only SATA "I"
> (150 Mb/sec)... I wonder if it really makes a difference on a system
> like this (Dual PIII Xeon 1 GHz)?
> 
> I did stumble across this link over at sun.com:
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/PlasticPixel/entry/build_your_own_multi_terabyte
> 
> 
> Where the fellows ZFS server uses similar SiI3114 chipset SATA card:
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124020
> 
> (I like the ROsewill card because the two external eSATA ports add to
> the flexibility of the card in other applications)
> 
> Any advice apprecated...

I can almost guarantee that any Silicon Image card will work better than 
any Promise card.

Check Newegg.  You actually have a few reasonable choices in this arena.

Peace...  Sridhar