From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Mamedov Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Cheap 4-port PCI-E SATA card? Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:08:03 +0500 Message-ID: <20110103210803.7119ec8b@natsu> References: <4D20E9F7.2080800@anonymous.org.uk> <20110103033100.40a80113@natsu> <4D21E726.7070306@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/GJouUKQzPYK3uQeOfxUG9Uc"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4D21E726.7070306@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Robinson Cc: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids --Sig_/GJouUKQzPYK3uQeOfxUG9Uc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:11:34 +0000 John Robinson wrote: > > "LSI SAS3041E-R 4-Port SAS/SATA Host Bus Adapter", $73 at DX: > > http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.51317 >=20 > =C2=A3113 or $174 is the best I can find in the UK. I wonder if they ship= =20 > internationally... their $73 is =C2=A348... Any item on http://www.dealextreme.com/ is shipped for free to anywhere in = the world. Personally I have ordered some goods from there, all fine. > Well, there are 4-port PCI cards in the =C2=A317-25 cheap range, so I had= =20 > hoped there would be 4-port PCI-E cards in the =C2=A335-50 range, which i= s=20 > the ballpark for basic cheap motherboards with 4-6 SATA ports on them,=20 > but it's not generally true. Yes, for some reason there are no 4-Port PCI-E chips from Silicon Image, JMicron or VIA, hence no inexpensive 4-Port PCI-E boards. --=20 With respect, Roman --Sig_/GJouUKQzPYK3uQeOfxUG9Uc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk0h9GMACgkQTLKSvz+PZwgOTQCeK2mD3KoyUN+FgR7lK17jW8WM ZqAAniecGdUwsEORCDqSMOEW9l76FUjp =+H/+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/GJouUKQzPYK3uQeOfxUG9Uc--