Recommended SATA card?
James Dinkel
jdinkel at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 00:14:32 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:00 PM, David Abrahams <dave at boostpro.com> 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
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