From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Max Waterman Subject: Re: recommended 4port SATA controller ? Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:17:42 +0300 Message-ID: <4AB236F6.3050705@fastmail.co.uk> References: <4AB22135.7030405@kaneda.iguw.tuwien.ac.at> <87f94c370909170549v156f9b23ie19f7204e21819f1@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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.