From: Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman@fastmail.co.uk>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: recommended 4port SATA controller ?
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:17:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB236F6.3050705@fastmail.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0909170903270.22812@soloth.lewis.org>
Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>
>> The support chips are not always available in all flavors of PCI, so
>> you need to specify which flavor PCI slots your mother board has.
>>
>> I don't recall seeing a non-raid 4-port "legacy PCI" controller, but I
>> can't say I've looked very hard. Hopefully your motherboard has a
>> "PCI express" slot available.
>
> Search newegg for promise sata and you'll find 4-port PCI non-raid
> SATA/SATA-II for about $70.
When I was looking for EIDE ones, I was finding RAID ones in jbod mode
would work (for some definition of 'work'), and ended up being cheaper,
if that's something that's important. Actually, I've been running one
for the last 4 years or so. IIRC, it's a Highpoint one.
YMMV
Max.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-17 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 11:44 recommended 4port SATA controller ? Rainer Fuegenstein
2009-09-17 11:57 ` Majed B.
2009-09-17 12:49 ` Greg Freemyer
2009-09-17 13:04 ` Jon Lewis
2009-09-17 13:17 ` Max Waterman [this message]
2009-09-17 13:28 ` Rui Santos
2009-10-13 21:19 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-09-17 13:40 ` Tapani Tarvainen
2009-09-17 14:47 ` Rainer Fuegenstein
2009-09-17 21:52 ` Matt Garman
2009-09-17 22:41 ` Kristleifur Daðason
2009-09-17 23:48 ` Rainer Fuegenstein
2009-09-21 16:29 ` Matt Garman
2009-09-22 14:05 ` Matthias Urlichs
2009-09-17 13:43 ` Christian Pernegger
2009-09-17 14:57 ` Jon Hardcastle
2009-09-17 21:37 ` John Bridges
2009-09-17 23:02 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-17 23:35 ` Kristleifur Daðason
2009-09-17 23:59 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-18 10:58 ` mdraid causing mvsas to lockup? (was: Re: recommended 4port SATA controller ?) Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-18 23:02 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-21 16:16 ` mdraid causing mvsas to lockup? Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-27 3:34 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-09-18 0:23 ` recommended 4port SATA controller ? John Bridges
2009-09-18 0:52 ` John Bridges
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