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Onboard controllers bs HBA's
« on: 19 February 2009, 10:47:07 »
I was parked in my favourite pub the other day talking computers with a couple of friends who are hardcore gamers.

We got round to talking computer builds, as they've all dived headfirst and paid through the nose for i7 stuff, and the subject came up of drives and storage. So using the wealth of info I got from here (thanks TB and CEM  :y)  I blew their ships out of the water!

However, they couldn't grasp why I was running all my drives off HBA's.

I told them that I was saving my SCSI drives, till I had the money to buy the board i've been looking at with a PCI-X slot (they didn't get PCI-X either!) and couldn't understand why I run my two sata drives off my humble PCI-e x1 adaptec controller card instead of the onboard controllers, for which all I could come up with was
'i don't trust them!'

We're getting together on friday, help me out here guys ;)
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Re: Onboard controllers bs HBA's
« Reply #1 on: 19 February 2009, 10:49:15 »
They let you PARK in your pub? :o
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Re: Onboard controllers bs HBA's
« Reply #2 on: 19 February 2009, 21:34:37 »
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I was parked in my favourite pub the other day talking computers with a couple of friends who are hardcore gamers.

We got round to talking computer builds, as they've all dived headfirst and paid through the nose for i7 stuff, and the subject came up of drives and storage. So using the wealth of info I got from here (thanks TB and CEM  :y)  I blew their ships out of the water!

However, they couldn't grasp why I was running all my drives off HBA's.

I told them that I was saving my SCSI drives, till I had the money to buy the board i've been looking at with a PCI-X slot (they didn't get PCI-X either!) and couldn't understand why I run my two sata drives off my humble PCI-e x1 adaptec controller card instead of the onboard controllers, for which all I could come up with was
'i don't trust them!'

We're getting together on friday, help me out here guys ;)
The 'southbridge' (AMD type boards) or Controller Hub (ICHxR - Intel) type RAID implementations are budget, and about the slowest you can get.  Also, on most implementations, will sit on a PCI bus (not great).

A fair bit of the work is done in the driver (ie main CPU) rather than offloaded in firmware on the raid controller.
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Re: Onboard controllers bs HBA's
« Reply #3 on: 19 February 2009, 23:48:04 »
that's great TB - time to get my cloud of smug out for a second time  and remind them that all those LED controllers and neons cloud the brain  :y

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Re: Onboard controllers bs HBA's
« Reply #4 on: 20 February 2009, 08:16:08 »
 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Still means break all to me though ::) ::) :D :D :D
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