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NAS4Free Compatible SATA PCI/PCIe SATA Hard Drive Controllers
by ciiic » Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:44 pm

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Hi (!)
Some extended web-research resulted in information on (low cost) FreeNAS 8/NAS4Free compatible SATA PCIe & PCI Hard Disk Adapters:

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LIST of SATA PCIe Hard Disk Adapters:
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* DS-30102 EAN: 4016032245056 http://www.digitus.info/de/produkte/zub ... -ds-30102/ , see Digitus DS-30102, PCIe x1 ab €17,92 http://geizhals.at/deutschland/367742
** Intern: 2x SATA II • Extern: 2x eSATA • RAID 0/1/0+1
** http://www.siliconimage.com/products/pr ... spx?pid=32
** Chipset: Sil 3132
*** Free BSD 8.0 amd64 SATA controller speed, JMB 363 vs. Sil 3132 http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/SA ... 33254.html
***! FreeNAS Forum: Controller with Silicon Image Chips http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freen ... =65&t=6210

* DS-30103 EAN: 4016032244950 http://www.digitus.info/de/produkte/zub ... -ds-30103/ , see Digitus DS-30103, PCIe x1 ab €13,98 http://geizhals.at/deutschland/367733
** Intern: 2x SATA II, 1x PATA • Extern: 2x eSATA • RAID 0/1/0+1
** Chipset: JMB 363
*** FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 SATA controller speed, JMB 363 vs. Sil 3132 http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/SA ... 33254.html

* DS-30104 EAN: 4016032245049 http://www.digitus.info/de/produkte/zub ... -ds-30104/ , see Digitus DS-30104, PCIe x4 ab €53,67 http://geizhals.at/deutschland/367722
** Intern: 4x SATA II • Extern: 2x eSATA
** Chipset: MARVELL 88SX7042


LIST of SATA PCI Hard Ddisk Adapters:
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* DS-33102 (PCI33) EAN: 4016032244981 http://www.digitus.info/de/produkte/zub ... -ds-33102/, see Digitus DS-33102, PCI ab €22,35 http://geizhals.at/deutschland/420062
** extern: 2x SATA RAID 0/1/5/1+0 • intern: 4x SATA RAID 0/1/5/1+0
** Chipset: SIL 3114
*** Expanding my server FreeNAS http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... #r26103347 :"I've got a SIL 3114 card in my FreeNAS box and, although not "supported" seems to be working fine..."
***! FreeNAS Forum: Controller with Silicon Image Chips http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freen ... =65&t=6210

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Recommendations:

*There are reported problems with the listed Silicon Image adapters - mostly in heavy I/O dependent storage environments. So, I would recommend the MARVELL 88SX7042 chipset based SATA PCIe adapter DS-30104.
*But I also have a DS-30103 SATA PCIe adapter with JMB 363 chipset, which works just fine for me, because I needed a serial PATA.

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see also:
* FreeNAS Forum: Hard disk & controller http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freen ... m.php?f=65
* Random reboots with Sil3132 controller http://forums.freenas.org/archive/index ... 5e8d4db782
* Software Vs Hardware RAID http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/raid-hard ... tware.html

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All credit goes to ciiic for the original post on the FreeNAS Forum.


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Thanks.

Larry Kraemer

Intel SASuc8I / LSI SAS3081E-R 8x SAS/SATAII Ports running also fine out of the box !

A review also there exists : http://www.servethehome.com/intel-sasuc ... er-review/ Have fun

Buhu

This PCI to SATA adapter works well too. In my system I was able to boot from it.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Semlos-Interna ... dp_product

If you are doing ZFS, any commodity LSI chipped HBA will do nicely. There are rebranded HP and Dell cards all over ebay for $25-$40. You just wipe their flash, and flash them to the latest and you save 200 bucks. If you are doing UFS, any 3ware or LSI RAID card for $20 off ebay works well.
Most guys use the LSI 9211-8 for ZFS I believe. Either flashed from rebranded corporate crap or straight up. I use UFS because I can't stack RAM and CPU to infinity and beyond. My motherboard has limitations.

LSI 9211-8 f = M1015 about 100€ higly recommended.

http://www.ebay.es/itm/AUTHENTIC-M1015- ... xyYANTa60y

I'm using a cheap 2 port ASMedia ASM1061 (for about 10$ in china) and a 8 port Dell Perc H200 with the LSI 9211-8i IT firmware (for about 70$ in china).
Perc H310 is also working on NAS4Free. In both cases you will need 2 pieces of adaptor cables.

Watchout if SFF-8087 (internal) or SFF-8088 (external) is needed. I ended up in buying both because I got the wrong controller card and noticed it too late that it wasn't my fault.