Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:22:28 -0800 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports Message-ID: <ca70b908-37bc-006a-7915-21768ddfba3c@holgerdanske.com>
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freebsd-questions: I have a system with an Intel DQ67SW desktop board: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/motherboards/desktop/dq67sw/dq67sw_techprodspec02.pdf It has the following expansion slots: - One PCI Express 2.0 x16 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x4 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x1 add-in card connector - One Conventional PCI bus connector I need more SATA III 6 Gb/s ports and am looking for a HBA: 1. I would prefer using PCIe x4 slot, but can use the x16 slot. 2. Non-RAID. 3. At least four SATA ports. 4. Can handle sustained loads of ~250 MB/s across all SATA ports simultaneously. 5. Works OOTB with FreeBSD 12.1, Debian 9, and Debian 10. 6. Works OOTB with SeaToolsBootable_RC_2.1.2. 7. New or used. My research thus far: 1. LSI products are popular, but: a. Most seem to be PCIe x8. b. STFW I see more than a few posts complaining about changing firmware from RAID to non-RAID, buggy firmware releases, and/or motherboard BIOS/UEFI incompatibilities with the flash tools. 2. Syba offers products: https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=64_181_85&filter=38,74 a. While migrating backup data, I recently saw a Syba PCIe x1 two port SATA II 3 Gb/s HBA model SD-SA2PEX-2IR throttling under sustained load -- it ran at 80-100 MB/s for 4-5 minutes, then at ~7 MB/s for two hours. Unacceptable. Comments? David
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