From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Slightly OT] Cheap 4-port PCI-E SATA card?
Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:11:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D20E9F7.2080800@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
Please could someone suggest a cheap PCI-E SATA card with 4 internal ports?
I currently have 6 motherboard SATA ports and a 5-drive hot-swap
chassis, I am thinking of adding a second 5-drive hot-swap chassis to my
case and would need another 4 SATA ports to drive it.
Other requirements: known to work with RHEL/CentOS 5 kernels, even if it
means installing a driver with DKMS or whatever.
Doesn't have to be PCI-E x1 because I've a spare x8 (logical)/x16
(physical) slot, but I don't know if anything cheap's going to be
anything other than PCI-E x1. v2.0 (5GT/s) would be nice though.
Looking through my usual suppliers' listings, there are occasional cheap
cards with one or several e-SATA ports, or considerably more expensive
cards claiming to have RAID, but I don't want to spend more on a 4-port
SATA card than I would on a motherboard.
Happy new year all!
Cheers,
John.
next reply other threads:[~2011-01-02 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-02 21:11 John Robinson [this message]
2011-01-02 22:31 ` [Slightly OT] Cheap 4-port PCI-E SATA card? Roman Mamedov
2011-01-03 15:11 ` John Robinson
2011-01-03 16:08 ` Roman Mamedov
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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