From: Andreas Klauer <Andreas.Klauer@metamorpher.de>
To: Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Looking to pick PCIe x4/x8 4+ SATA expansion card recommendation.
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:35:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160328193541.GA9502@EIS> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F97B91.4070302@gmail.com>
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:44:33PM -0500, Ram Ramesh wrote:
> The recommendations typically go for PCIe x1-2port type cards
Well, an 8 port card (like HP H220 or similar) is a bit too
expensive if all you need is two more slots, and it's not
like mdadm is picky - anything goes, well, as long as it
meets minimum requirements (no I/O errors etc)...
If you're looking for something on an even larger scale,
maybe have a look at the Backblaze Storage Pod blog posts.
Although the hardware they use seems to be hard to get,
it might give you some ideas.
They actually use port multipliers, I actually wish they
were as widespread (and as cheap) as USB hubs, so we all
could simply put three or four disks to a single SATA port,
but alas...
Maybe next time.
Regards
Andreas Klauer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-28 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-28 18:44 Looking to pick PCIe x4/x8 4+ SATA expansion card recommendation Ram Ramesh
2016-03-28 19:20 ` John Stoffel
2016-03-28 19:25 ` John Stoffel
2016-03-28 19:43 ` Ram Ramesh
2016-03-28 20:07 ` John Stoffel
2016-03-28 21:03 ` Wols Lists
2016-03-28 19:35 ` Andreas Klauer [this message]
2016-03-28 19:42 ` Ram Ramesh
2016-03-28 19:41 ` Phil Turmel
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