Hi,
I've lately been thinking about adding a PCI (< 2.2) SATA Controller
to one of my current machines (5 year old Athlon 800 on a VIA KT133
board), for future use as a fileserver (relegated to some place where
the noise won't disturb anyone). Of course I'd add in something like
2-4 large (> 200GB apiece) SATA disks for that task.
The boot drive would remain on the current SCSI-based setup, so there
won't be any issues with bootability from that new drive system.
Obviously, that thing must be able to work with Linux, using free
drivers. I don't necessarily need RAID functionality, as that can
be covered by software RAID. I *do* want that tagged command queueing
functionality, which is still only optional in SATA (unlike SCSI), but
which makes all the difference in performance for concurrent access to
the disks.
So, can anyone recommend any specific products, preferrably not
overly expensive, but reliable ones?
TIA, Eric
P.S. No, I'm not going to shell out big ¤¤¤ on huge SCSI drives ;-)