Cheap PCIe SATA III card -- Marvell 88SE9230 or Asmedia asm1061?

[Olav Gjerde]

Both controllers use the AHCI interface and should work really well, plug
and play. I've tried ASMedia 1061 and it seems to work ok. Performance is
as expected with PCIe 1x gen2.


On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Lev Serebryakov <lev at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hello, Freebsd-hardware.
>
>   I want to add 2 (cheap) SATA-3 ports to my old server, which has only
> SATA-2 ports
> on MoBo. I'm running FreeBSD 9 with plans to migrate to 10 after release.
>
>   I have choice between PCIe x1 cards based on Marvell 88SE9230 and Asmedia
> asm1061 controllers. Which is better for FreeBSD? I want to attach SSDs to
> these ports.
>
> --
> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
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Olav Grønås Gjerde