From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ram Ramesh Subject: Re: Raid server Motherboard recommendation. Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 23:45:23 -0500 Message-ID: <56EB87E3.6060504@gmail.com> References: <5643FD4A.4070709@gmail.com> <20151112122908.0406d170@natsu> <56449EE5.3010002@gmail.com> <20151112151105.GA32385@EIS> <56E9E056.7000204@gmail.com> <20160317095252.GA3822@EIS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160317095252.GA3822@EIS> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Klauer Cc: Roman Mamedov , Linux Raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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