Asmedia 106x sata controller work with raid
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I still see the 2nd generation low-profile 3Gbps card as in stock, but would rather stick with the newer card if possible.Ĭurrently have an Antec P182 case with Gigabyte X58 Chipset Board, Core i7 920, 12GB RAM, OCZ Modstream 700W PSU, 6 x 1TB 7200RPM Seagate Drives and 1 x C300 SSD for Cache. I did a search and came up with slightly older threads - am I mistaken, or has this 3rd generation card been around for a while (Newegg reviews show 2013, but I thought maybe they was because they migrated their SKU from 2nd generation or something). I'm just waiting for them to come into stock in Canada, but thought I would check.
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Has anyone tried the latest Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 card (3rd generation, now supporting 6Gbps x 8 SAS/SATA drives, requires PCIe x8 slot)? Any feedback or other ideas?Īlso, is there any reason to get the older SuperMicro SASLP at this point?
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My personal inclination is to go with the SuperMicro even though it is overkill unless I can find a recommendation for a good 4 port card. For instance, LSI cards seem to be very expensive and many of the IBM M1015 cards ship from China. I've reviewed recommendations here on the forum but it's a little hard to figure out what is current. Go all the way up to an 8 port card card like the SuperMicro for future expandability.I'm least comfortable in this space though - I haven't been able to find recent recommendations. Use an x4 card with 4 ports in the x16 slot like this Highpoint.Use an x1 adaptor with 4 ports like this Syba.These seem more like desktop cards than server cards? Use a couple of x1 2 port adaptors, for instance Monoprice or Rosewill.It has 3 x1 slots and an x16 slot, which will hopefully work for a SATA controller. My current motherboard is older and only support PCI Express 1.x. I'd like to be able to add 4 more drives for now. I'm getting ready to add additional drives and my motherboard SATA ports are full. I wouldn't be using SAS expanders if I didn't want the PCIe slots for tuners and this allows me to only have one slot used for unRAID hard drive control and the rest of the slots can be used for other devices and VMs. I haven't noticed a heat problem but my case has good ventilation. Since this is for a business purpose, there are a variety of controllers that are costly for a home user which might fit the bill for a business. With separate ports for each drive you'd be more future proof. We are seeing magnetics continue to grow in size and speed, and SSDs, which are dramatically faster, also grow in size and reduce in cost. Bob has had good luck with his and not saying it is a bad idea, but in general I would tend to favor using a motherboard + addon controllers and adding each drive directly to a real port. And the cost is not much if at all less than than separate controllers. With some of those answers I might advise differently, but I have read of some heat and reliability issues with some of the SAS expanders.
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6T drives are becoming affordable and may be a direction to look if starting a new array and might reduce your drive count needs. What is the application you are targeting? How important is performance vs cost? Why the 24 drive limit? (I would think you might say you need to space for XX terabytes instead of XX drives). Im just trying to save money on the sata/sas controllers as most of our parts are recycled, id also not like to go down the rute i have with my own personal server. The enclosure will be completely custom built to fit in with our already existing server systems This was pulled from one of our old servers that are nolonger needed, the system will have both "Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 V2 processors" and max ram as it will be hosting unraid among other operating systems. I just as much in the dark about the expander as you are my friend, this is the first i heard of one and thought id bring it to the forum, the Motherboard my company have atm - GA-7PESH1. If you manage to get one with 8 SATA slots and add 2 M1015 (or other 8x SAS adapters) you also have 24 slots. I suppose you will use a server grade motherboard. While I'm not sure how the expander is working - what do the experts here say with regard to the bandwith provided by a single PCIe x8 to connect 24 drives? Isn't it a bit of a bottle neck?Ģ.