From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:00:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiDc9jjjUHqTFYvVe5rt7fkS9w6QoGg7g6uVz82bVKNVsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120623224828.GI5083@crowfix.com>
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, <felix@crowfix.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>> There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two
>> SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only
>> one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8.
>
> How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles?
Um, pretty easy? Same as how difficult it might be to plug one into
your motherboard.
>
> My tower is pretty full, but some of that is 3 SCSI drives, and I may
> at some point change all three to a single SSD drive and put in two
> more 4T drives.
Sure.
>
>> The reason I'm only using 3? This system doesn't have PCI-X, only PCIe
>> and PCI. So I want as much as reasonable plugged into the mainboard's
>> SATA ports.
>
> Why not use the PCIe slots for SATA to get more speed? I suppose you
> could just want bulk where speed is not essential, or they could be full....
I didn't have non-GPU PCIe slots when I bought the cards, and I don't
have a PCIe SATA controller. When I bought the cards, I did happen to
have a prescott-based dual-xeon system with a couple PCI-X slots I
wanted to take advantage of. It only took a couple days' having that
machine powered up before I realized I didn't need that powerful of an
electric space heater in my apartment...
The one thing I'd really like to change over what I've got...I'd like
to have the correct-length SATA cables, rather than having plenty of
SATA cables all of worst-case length.
Well, the other thing I'd like to change is use hot-swap bays instead
of the semi-fixed bays I've got. Then I wouldn't need to move cables
around if I need to remove drives. (That got to be a problem earlier
this week.) But that's not the fault of the controller.
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-23 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-23 20:33 [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards? felix
2012-06-23 22:05 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-23 22:20 ` felix
2012-06-23 22:32 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-23 22:48 ` felix
2012-06-23 23:00 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2012-06-23 23:13 ` felix
2012-06-23 23:18 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-24 10:24 ` Alyf
2012-06-29 16:57 ` felix
2012-06-29 17:45 ` felix
2012-06-29 18:13 ` Paul Hartman
2012-06-29 19:24 ` felix
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