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Post by laonightwolf on May 13, 2007 20:23:55 GMT 7
Has anyone replaced his Silicon Image's Sil2515 SATA controller with another one so you can achieve 3.0Gbps transfer rates?
If so what brand did you go for and what one would you advise to connect two Thecus N2050's to?
I have 2 x N2050's with respectively 2x500gb hd's in RAID1, good for 1tb of mirrored storage. I'm know using the standard Sil2515 which is delivered with the N2050.
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Post by k2tsang on Jun 19, 2007 10:13:58 GMT 7
Has anyone replaced his Silicon Image's Sil2515 SATA controller with another one so you can achieve 3.0Gbps transfer rates? If so what brand did you go for and what one would you advise to connect two Thecus N2050's to? I have 2 x N2050's with respectively 2x500gb hd's in RAID1, good for 1tb of mirrored storage. I'm know using the standard Sil2515 which is delivered with the N2050. The Silicon Image SATA controller come with N2050 is Sil3512 PCI to 2 Port SATA150 use PCI Bus only 1.3Gb/s SiI3124 - PCI/PCI-X to 4 Port SATA300 use PCI Bus only 1.3Gb/s use PCI-X Bus has 3.Gb/s SiI3132 - PCI Express (1x) to 2 Port SATA300 use PCI-e (1x) Bus has 3.Gb/s |
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Post by chaser on Jun 8, 2008 5:20:54 GMT 7
I just bought the N2050 and am happy with it, the only question I have is whether replacing the included esata 150 controller for a esata 300 controller will give even better performance.
What I also would like to know is which controllers are compatible with the N2050, I have seen a recommendation for controllers with silicon image chips on it, but it's very difficult to find these pci express controllers on the internet.
Perhaps Thecus can also do some tests with different brand of controllers and provide us with a compatibility list.
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Post by chaser on Jun 15, 2008 21:48:56 GMT 7
I replaced the esata pci sata I card for an esata pci express sata II from addonics which has the silicon image 3132 chip on it, I installed it, turned on the n2050 and it recognized it immediately, all the data on it in RAID 1 was still there.
I ran some speed test with diskbench, the read transfer seems a bit higher then with the sata I card, but not extraordinary faster.
Looking in device manager it says Host link speed generation 2 (3 Gb/s) and Device link speed generation 1 (1.5 Gb/s).
Whats the deal here? The n2050 was sold with the add that max speed of 3 Gb/s can be reached, but it looks like the n2050 internal card is just a 1.5 Gb/s card.
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