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Re: [SLE] Cheap UK-available SATA card recommendations?
- From: Gervase Chavasse <g_chavasse@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:03:12 +0100
- Message-id: <200506081603.12545.g_chavasse@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 15:00, Fergus Wilde wrote:
> Thanks to Jack and Ken - Jack recommends using 3ware SATA cards, but here
> in the UK the only ones I seem to be able to find are hundreds of pounds.
>
> Anyone recommend a cheap SATA card available in the UK that will give
> reasonable performance and allow me to attach SATA disks reliably to SuSE
> 9.2 / 9.3 installations?
I don't know about cheap but I just bought a MSI K8T Neo 2 FIR motherboard
from Novatech for about £74. It has 4 SATA and 2 IDE connections and works
fine with Suse 9.3. I also got an AMD 64 bit processor but that's another
story.
Gervase Chavasse
> Thanks to Jack and Ken - Jack recommends using 3ware SATA cards, but here
> in the UK the only ones I seem to be able to find are hundreds of pounds.
>
> Anyone recommend a cheap SATA card available in the UK that will give
> reasonable performance and allow me to attach SATA disks reliably to SuSE
> 9.2 / 9.3 installations?
I don't know about cheap but I just bought a MSI K8T Neo 2 FIR motherboard
from Novatech for about £74. It has 4 SATA and 2 IDE connections and works
fine with Suse 9.3. I also got an AMD 64 bit processor but that's another
story.
Gervase Chavasse
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