I just learned that the SATA ports on my nforce4 motherboard are AHCI non-compliant and that it's not very likely that NCQ will ever be supported on them, so I'm looking for something as a replacement. My options are using either the PCI-e x4 slot, or a regular PCI slot. I found a Syba card with 4 ports that uses the sil3124 chipset, which should be supported by the siis driver, but I'm wary of some of the reviews it's gotten on Newegg, not to mention it's a PCI-e x1 interface. My questions are thus:
1) Does anyone know of a well-supported (in FreeBSD) PCI-e x4 card with 4 internal SATA ports that's not to pricey?
2) There seem to be plenty of PCI cards that would fit the bill; what kind of a performance hit should I expect with one of these cards?
1) Does anyone know of a well-supported (in FreeBSD) PCI-e x4 card with 4 internal SATA ports that's not to pricey?
2) There seem to be plenty of PCI cards that would fit the bill; what kind of a performance hit should I expect with one of these cards?