Re: Raid server Motherboard recommendation.

[Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@gmail.com>]

On 03/17/2016 04:52 AM, Andreas Klauer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 05:38:14PM -0500, Ram Ramesh wrote:
>> If you don't mind, could you share with me the standalone card that you
>> use?
> I think this is the same I use:
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCI-E-Express-SATA3-SATA3-0-6Gb-s-eSATA-SATA-III-Card-ASMEDIA1061-/231378681315
>
> It has two ports, and you can choose between internal and external via 4 jumpers per port.
>
> You also find this Asmedia chipset on a lot of Asus/Asrock mainboards that have two additional SATA ports.
>
>> BTW, have you stressed your card through a rebuild/checkarray?
> I run checkarray every day (each day a different part of disk so entire disk is covered in a week or so) with no issue.
>
> I also mirror my single SSD disk to the HDD RAID once a week.
>
> I can run a mkfs.ext4 -c -c on a LVM partition at a later time, but so far no issues whatsoever.
>
> Regards
> Andreas Klauer
Thanks.

I saw similar one on Amazon too: 
http://www.amazon.com/Express-Adapter-Converter-ASMEDIA-ASM1061/dp/B008BZAVVE

I am getting asrock extreme6 and that will be enough for the next 
6months (eventually I want to have a total of 12). Before that time, I 
will probably buy the card you have given unless I get nervous about 
ebay vendor and choose amazon version.

Regards
Ramesh