[volunteergrid2-l] storage cards

[Shawn Willden]

Hmm.  Without more research than I have time to do right now, I can't tell
which of my drives are connected to which controller, but I just did
trivial read performance tests on all of them with "cat /dev/sd<whatever> |
pv > /dev/null", and all of them sustain 60-80 MBps.  As for corruption,
I've never had any problems.

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:36 AM, erpo41 at gmail.com <erpo41 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Really? A 3114? That's the exact kind I had and the performance was
> terrible. Less than 1MB/sec. I contacted the driver author and he said that
> the driver was throttling performance as a workaround: when run at full
> speed that chip can corrupt data.
> On Jul 27, 2012 7:09 AM, "Shawn Willden" <shawn at willden.org> wrote:
>
>> From lspci:
>>
>> 03:04.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114
>> [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
>> 03:05.0 Mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114
>> [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
>>
>> I've used two or three others in the past, with never a problem.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:49 PM, erpo41 at gmail.com <erpo41 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a plain vanilla PCI card to add some SATA ports to my
>>> server, but I've had bad luck with Linux and SATA cards in the past. Is
>>> anyone:
>>>
>>> 1. using one of these cards right now on their storage server,
>>> 2. not getting absolutely terrible performance and/or crashes, and
>>> 3. willing to share the exact model number and revision of both the PCI
>>> card and the chip?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric
>>>
>>>
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>> Shawn
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