From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Wacquiez?= Subject: Re: Offtopic: Which SAS / SATA HBA do you recommend? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:22:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4A644580.7000401@enix.org> References: <20090720092838.GA1375@cumulus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: sander@humilis.net To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090720092838.GA1375@cumulus> List-ID: Sander wrote: > What SAS (or SATA) controller do you use or recommend in combination > with a SSD and BTRFS? > I'm looking for a non-RAID controller with four or eight ports and of > course full Linux support. > =20 Hi, I don't have any ssd yet, but if you want cheap card without hardware raid, you could look at those : http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USASLP-L8i.cfm http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm You'll need to revert the bracket as they're designed to be in a supermicro UIO slot (In fact, they are just standart PCIe card upside down). They use the mptsas driver in linux which works ok for a long time, and can be found for ~ 130$. It work pretty fast (~ 800 Mo/s with a 8 drives raid10f2 in my brand new nehalem server). You can also find this one for ~ 120 bucks : http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SASLP-MV8.cfm No proprietary slot this time, the chipset is supported in 2.6.30 (but = I haven't tested it yet) via the mvsas drivers. Hope you find this usefull. Wacquiez S=E9bastien -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html