From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
Cc: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Cheap 4-port PCI-E SATA card?
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 21:08:03 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110103210803.7119ec8b@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D21E726.7070306@anonymous.org.uk>
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On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:11:34 +0000
John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk> wrote:
> > "LSI SAS3041E-R 4-Port SAS/SATA Host Bus Adapter", $73 at DX:
> > http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.51317
>
> £113 or $174 is the best I can find in the UK. I wonder if they ship
> internationally... their $73 is £48...
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 £17-25 cheap range, so I had
> hoped there would be 4-port PCI-E cards in the £35-50 range, which is
> the ballpark for basic cheap motherboards with 4-6 SATA ports on them,
> 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.
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With respect,
Roman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-03 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-02 21:11 [Slightly OT] Cheap 4-port PCI-E SATA card? John Robinson
2011-01-02 22:31 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-01-03 15:11 ` John Robinson
2011-01-03 16:08 ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2011-01-03 17:02 ` Sven Eschenberg
2011-01-02 22:41 ` Mark Knecht
2011-01-03 15:13 ` John Robinson
2011-01-03 17:57 ` Mark Knecht
2011-01-02 23:04 ` Matt Garman
2011-01-03 15:29 ` John Robinson
2011-01-03 15:35 ` Justin Piszcz
2011-01-03 6:41 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-01-03 16:00 ` John Robinson
2011-01-03 22:18 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-01-04 14:03 ` John Robinson
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