Re: USB PCI card to buy
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:35:21PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> I need to add USB to my HP NetServer LPr.
>
> Do they all "just work" now?
>
> I'm looking at either the Belkin F5U220v1 5-port (4+1) which I think has
> an NEC chipset, or one of the Startech's:
>
> PCI625USB21 6-port (4+2) with nvidia chipset
>
> PCI330USB2 4-port (3+1) with NEC D7201026c chipset
>
> PCI 220USB 3-port (2+1) with VIA VT6202 chipset.
>
> in sort of this order of preference.
We bought some cheapo USB PCI controllers. Normally they would be VIA
and I can't recall any problem we had. And at work we stress the USB
controller well.
At one time we had some problems with (on-board) nVidia) USB
controllers. Though those would be of the sort of things you normally
wouldn't care about (those controllers tend to have a much larger jitter
than others. But their "large" jitter is of the order of magnitude of
1ms).
>
> Any suggestions? Things to avoid?
>
> I don't need the internal ports since this is a 2U server with no front
> bays (2 hot-swap scsi, a floppy, a slim CD).
And this is PCI (rather than PCI-express), right? PCI USB controllers
are cheap. PCI-express ones cost a bit more.
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