Hello, >this isn't a complete list of supported ahci or marvell >parts. i don't know about jmicron support. i tried >to add it without having any hardware to test. i have >always chosen other hardware over jmicron. it seems >to benchmark poorly and be unnecessarly incompatable. > >i have not done systematic benchmarking of the >various parts. however .. > >1. unless one needs more ports than the motherboard >offers, i would stick with on-board ports.
That makes sense for me. Perhaps I could save money and use the onboard network chip too (most RELTEK)? Then I could invest more money in the board and the CPU. >2. note that the marvell 88sx card is pci-x but will >function properly in a pci slot. the marvell 88se64* >parts are a pci-e option. I saw that this cards are really expensive. As you said the onboard controller are a better choise. >3. if you set up a venti+fossil fileserver, you will have >a quite seeky load and the performance of the controller >should not be a big factor. but the performance of the >disks will be. After reading many mails here I plan to run a fossil only fileserver. So far I understand the "Ken" dedicated fileserver has gone. So disks >= 7200 u/min are ok? >> For network cards the intel gbe cards seems to be the best? > >yes. the 82563 and 8257[12456] are particularly good. I could get a 82574L (PCIe) (Desktop pro CT - EXPI9301CT) for 30$. Would this be a good buy? Regards, Wolfgang
