From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 22 10:15:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7CDD16A4E0 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:15:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1664743D45 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:15:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so1688893uge for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:14:59 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=apKozM++yV1dCi6KYcqoaAVhBE5gZiAvZ9SP2zVsoR/XmeIvAWw3mEVopwHUsQWDPrq33ttx0cbdjKBvDPcnFDaFXguvFiO1eNvBBObb15gP91dfCzM8Oh+lqe+UzDkJB/5uFQKQq79Nta0OHPx32CdWnG717dhsX5fJi61Wl5M= Received: by 10.78.164.13 with SMTP id m13mr753022hue; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:14:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.13 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:14:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:14:59 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Areca RAID Card. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:15:01 -0000 The motherboard I just bought, SuperMicro X7DBE, has both PCI-X 133MHz/64-bit and PCI-Express 8x slots, I can't decide what version of the Areca card to get... I'd like to see some benchmarks of the ARC-11xx (PCI-X) Vs. the ARC-12xx (PCI-Express). The PCIe device has a faster bus (PCIe 8x = 2000MB/s) but PCI-X is tried and true and not too shabby (PCI-X 133/64 = 850MB/s) ether. I have the option of ether a 1130ML (Infiniband connections) or a plan jane 1230. I've had troubles with SATA cables in the passed so the 1130ML is very desirable from this stand point. Another thing I'm worried about is the 1230 will have to much weight on the PCIe 8x slot because of all the SATA cables. and routing them all is a pain. Does anyone have a source for an ARC-1230ML? On the other hand I've never tried the latching SATA cables yet... but the ARC-1130 is $40 cheaper... I'll sleep on it for now... Thanks all. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/