Solved Freebsd 14.3 commercially available SATA3 PCIe card ?

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Hi , what PCIe SATA3 add on card can I purchase on the market today that has a working Freebsd 14 or 15 driver ?
 
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Solved Post in thread '/etc/mail/sendmail.cf generated from missing M4 .mc macro ?'

I now see that the .MC files exists in /etc/mail directory.
But this is probably because the freebsd.mc & freebsd-submit.mc needs to exist outside of the contributed sourcecode.

Im too used to run

# m4 ../m4/cf.m4 hostname.mc > sendmail.cf

SO I expected the freebsd .mc macrofile to exixst in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/cf

thanks , case closed.
I think you edited an existing post instead of writing a new one to ignore my post.
Is it worth my time to answer your question?
 
For SATA, ASMedia chips seem to consume less power and are more stable than Marvell chips.

Edit: This is ASM1166.
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Solved Post in thread 'Random ZFS drive detachments from host'

Well, after my last post a couple of weeks later the 6-port SATA card arrived and I set about replacing the HBA with it.

To my surprise the machine booted up and all the problems went away. The reason I didn't reply since May is because I didn't believe it. So I wanted to be absolutely sure that the problem had gone away for good.

As such I hammered the machine non stop over the summer, where outside temps here exceed 40°C. I only had the machine die on two occasions, both of them when the CPU exceeded 105°C, which I think is an internal over-temp cutoff.

After 4 months of stress...
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LSI got eaten by Broadcom who is pretty consumer-hostile. They are supported the best, though.

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Post in thread 'HBA SATA/SAS Controller'

I just spent a lot of time researching this and pretty much came to the same conclusion. I chose the LSI SAS 9207-8i supported by the mps() driver because it's cheaper than what you listed and 12Gb SATA isn't something my spinning disks need. I'll get to test it out tomorrow.

The Marvell based controllers appear to be just not that great (SIIG, StarTech, HighPoint, and... ugh... Syba) with the 88SE9215 and 88SE9235 non-RAID chipsets, based on others experiences, not just on FreeBSD. There also weren't enough PCIe lanes on the cards to support the bandwidth of all the drives at...
 
Charlie_ said:
For SATA, ASMedia chips seem to consume less power and are more stable than Marvell chips.

Edit: This is ASM1166.
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Solved Post in thread 'Random ZFS drive detachments from host'

Well, after my last post a couple of weeks later the 6-port SATA card arrived and I set about replacing the HBA with it.

To my surprise the machine booted up and all the problems went away. The reason I didn't reply since May is because I didn't believe it. So I wanted to be absolutely sure that the problem had gone away for good.

As such I hammered the machine non stop over the summer, where outside temps here exceed 40°C. I only had the machine die on two occasions, both of them when the CPU exceeded 105°C, which I think is an internal over-temp cutoff.

After 4 months of stress...
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Thank you , thats a very good tip . PCIE 3.0 and 6 ports, that is excellent.
 
I received the GLOTRENDS ASM 1166 6 port SATA board , and have now installed it in a workstation.
It works apparently ,and mounts a couple of ZILOG cache disks . So far so good.
 
I like to Benchmark with diskinfo -t for comparison testing. SATA3 drives seem to max out around 550MB/s on amd64.

I have some M.2 2242/2280 ASMedia 4/6 port cards for arm/embedded projects. Rest all LSI 9400i
 
They should do, theoretical SATA3 speed is 6 Gbit /sec. Aggregate speed of the Board is more interesting.
This is a $60 USD , PCIE 3.0 X2 ( 2 lanes ) PCB. Which is stated to have 1660 MB/s aggregated bandwidth.
So it can be expected to drive 3 -4 SSD/HDDs at resonable speed.

NVME media with M.2 or SAS connectivity is of course much faster. and much more expensive .
We had DUAL HBA SAS 12 Gbit/sec PCIe 3.0 X8 ( 8 lanes ) cards in our servers with about 8 GB/s bandwidth ,
but SAS SSD is not affordable for retired hobbyists.

The new PCIE Gen4 and Gen5 cards for mounting M.2 NVME of same Generation, will obviously run much faster.
 
Enterprise 1.92TB SATA are still valid. I just picked up a pair of Micron 5100Pro M.2 $140usd each new.
More expensive than NVMe but for older platforms they are a great upgrade.

Enterprise SAS SSD can be had for a descent price. I bought some Toshiba ones that are older but new for a good price.
Nearing NVMe speeds.

LSI Tri-Mode was pretty useless experiment. They run 3 different interfaces but stink at all of them. Performance hit on NVMe versus straight pipe.
Who does controller raid these days. The cable price was very high. Nevertheless I have Intel and LSI Tri-Mode gear. It works good.

I went on a spree and bought like 10 different Intel Drive Cages with 8 bays 2.5". They are all interchangeable with SATA/SAS/NVMe and use standard connectors.
I bought different colored trays to keep track of drive types. I love it. I built/upgraded 3 home servers with them. Fits in 3x 5.25" bays. Interchangeable backplanes.
This one is the king of the bunch. I have a few.

2U Hot-swap 8x2.5inch SAS/NVMe Combo Drive Bay Kit A2U8X25S3PHS - Product Specifications | Intel

2U Hot-swap 8x2.5inch SAS/NVMe Combo Drive Bay Kit A2U8X25S3PHS quick reference with specifications, features, and technologies.
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