From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SiZKr-0003LA-7k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:01:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB5B021C0A8; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF911E0C07 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 23:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so2678740bkc.40 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:00:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1LTc1Gy96qpd4krVfPdPJxi7NSiw7dG8E1gAXtSpWn0=; b=H99t2deTxWhz3MoPWbMmsSE1MxIBYsnMSSZ7VzCtL6XXzYYz1goSkoiKxpHO3SANBi Y4XgQM1GInpXFswIFo9EP+qb8zXjbhM676aQYf0iD5CJ21i8HEhX8plthTiaGD+iJ5o8 bUc1g7GbBD2BsC6Cs1AUdx6Oxj6O1xxb67UfZpVjahknkYHwpJwLPJQYuGyEhXhIJvCU W5ezYdS9Jjsl8iHvz4M1c+KzmIsN+ruVD0V430HiCCj95nHyHmKKMU8rwocAFGyfAwzn gFt/Rd47w0yM3BJMo2DzVZFmqtdNJtizioktj0b1aOBAdS8aK6bCCQbP4IterTmHlODO SO+Q== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.154.140 with SMTP id o12mr2389173bkw.139.1340492401638; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.205.83.139 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 16:00:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120623224828.GI5083@crowfix.com> References: <20120623203348.GG5083@crowfix.com> <20120623222023.GH5083@crowfix.com> <20120623224828.GI5083@crowfix.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:00:01 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards? From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cdaf05d4-d868-4ddc-950f-4f098ec0e680 X-Archives-Hash: 40e6ff7e9fb76d56d8b4f1052534b2d2 On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, 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? =C2=A0I suppose yo= u > 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. --=20 :wq