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VIA, VT6421, PCI, Sata, Controller, Hardware, BSD, Unix, Linux, Slackware
We'd like to share an experience about PCI Sata controllers with VIA VT6421 chipset and solid state drives. This PCI cards support software raid. You can set raid with jumpers on the card. We have not tested this system with a Windows or another operating system. The test consist on BSD Unix.
We've tested this card on both FreeBSD 8.0 and Slackware Linux 13. To be honest, the card alone is awfull. It gives so much read/write errors on both BSD Unix and Linux.
The card detected both the HDD and...
We have bought 16 GB BigBoy (Samsung Chips) Slim MLC SSD last week. In physical size, it's really so slim, thin, small. It's about 1 inch in size. The size advantage of solid state drives really matters.
What about the performance?
First of all, we didn't test the drive with for various factors. We only did simple copy and read tests.
The platform is FreeBSD unix. We formatted the SSD as UFS file system. The motherboard supports Sata 1. So the results are based on Sata 1 only.
We wrote a shell...