On 08/18/2012 03:18 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I wonder if there is direct knowledge here about this controller? > > http://www.amazon.com/HighPoint-Rocket-SATA-PCI-Express-Controller/dp/B002VEWBGO I have one of these in a non-critical home system (light duty media server). Rather old mobo, actually... 32bit w/ PCIe v1 slots. Card maxes out at 200MB/s in that system. Theoretically capable of 500MB/s in a PCIe v2 slot. Kernel is vanilla 2.6.39.4 at the moment. Card is bound to the ahci driver with no problems. Hotplug works fine, too. > I'm looking to add an inexpensive 2-port controller for a home > server that's out of ports on the MB but has room in the chassis for a > couple more drives running RAID1. The machine has been successfully > running mdadm for the last couple of years and the power supply is > plenty big enough to take on the new hardware. > > According the the Highpoint site is has native Linux support so it > doesn't appear there are any major driver availability issues. The one > problem I've read about that concerns me is it may conflict with > existing on-board Marvell eSATA controllers which this machine has. > > If this is a bad type of controller for a sinple RAID1 addition > please feel free to point me at an alternative. Amazon or NewEgg is > preferred. I got mine from NewEgg, FWIW. HTH, Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
