SiI3112 Controller Question

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:45 PM, Richard P. Koett wrote:

> Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>> At 1:51 PM -0800 3/30/06, Richard P. Koett wrote:
>>> Some quick questions:
>>>
>>> 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good?
>>
>> They suck.
>> They are horrible.
>> They are very cheap to buy -- and are overpriced after
>> you add in all the aggravation they provide.
>>
>> Don't waste your time on them.  Buy a real SATA
>> controller.  (disclaimer: I am only commenting on
>> their SATA controllers)
>>
>>> I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead
>>> but was planning to use that elsewhere.
>>
>> Unfortunately I don't know enough to comment on other
>> alternatives.  I dumped my SiI3112 SATA controller
>> and bought a real controller as made by Promise, but
>> there are probably a number of other good options.
>
> Well, the HPT controller is not what I'd call *real* RAID
> either but it's lying around so I'll give it a try.

If you want a somewhat reasonably priced "real" raid controller, the  
LSI MegaRaid SATA-4 150 (or some name like that) is around $225 or so  
and works pretty well

Chad


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