Re: Mixed controllers on JBOD Raid 6?

["John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org>]

Another> I'm looking at an Asus Maximus Vii Gene motherboard which has
Another> 8 SATA controller connectors.....6 Intel and 2 other (can't
Another> remember at the moment).

Another> Are there any projected issues or concerns about making a 8
Another> Drive RAID6 array where I'm using mixed controllers?

I tried using this for a while, but once I ran out of ports as I added
drives, I ended up getting:

02:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)

And putting that into my system and hanging most, if not all of my
data drives off that sucker.  I did this so that my RAID1 boot volumes
wouldn't move around and get mixed up, and also so that I got more
channels and stayed away from semi-crappy (maybe all crappy) dual/quad
port SATA SIL chips.  I forget the exact brands.

But in any case, if you can, I'd recommended that dedicated card, or a
pair of them, so that you get nice fast speed, and the warm fuzzy
feeling that your boot drives won't wander around in boot order
detection much.

John