Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

[Roberto Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net>]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>
> > search [0], I am a bit hesitant to get that combination.  Does anyone on 
> > the list have any firsthand experience with Barracuda drives on a 3114 
> > controller?  What have you encountered?
>
>
> Bad question.  You need to know exactly *WHICH* Barracuda drives you are
> talking about, and which people are talking about when they reply to you.
>
> Don't expect 7200.9 Barracudas (SATA 300) to work fine with some broken
> SATA 150 chipsets (such as Intel ICH5/ICH5R).  They *may* work, or they may
> fail to work (but at least if it is a 300/150 issue, it is an
> all-or-nothing, so no data loss).
>
> 7200.8 have NCQ and non-NCQ versions, so you need to know which you're
> dealing with as well.

You did not specify whether I should be looking for a drive with NCQ or 
without NCQ.  :-)

Anyhow, I am considering combining these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856152018
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148065

Do you think that I may run into problems with these?

-Roberto

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