From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: [Slightly OT] Cheap 4-port PCI-E SATA card? Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:11:19 +0000 Message-ID: <4D20E9F7.2080800@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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.