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  1. 3 hours ago, JunctionRunner said:

    Found this looking for the same, especially on an ultrawide, middle panel has a huge gap at the bottom with nothing useful, the disk identify plugin is on the left side but I have to scroll down to even see it. Kind of shocked we can't change this stuff around.

    You can move things around in the dashboard since 6.12 (I think).

    Are there still improvements to be made ?

  2. On 11/25/2023 at 9:44 PM, sayon said:

    While reading, I saw that you recommend the SYBA SY-PEX40039

    I don't remember and I never used it myself. But it seems to use a ASM1061 that is on the recommended list, so that's probably what I said then.

     

    On 11/25/2023 at 9:44 PM, sayon said:

    I saw that it is PCIe 2.0 x1, since the MSI Z490-A PRO motherboard has the PCIe 3.0 x1 slot is this a problem?

    No problem, the PCIe 3.0 of your motherboard is backward compatible with the previous generations of PCI Express.

     

    On 11/25/2023 at 9:44 PM, sayon said:

    Will there be any drops in performance?

    One lane of PCIe gen2 is rated to 500MB/s, it should be fine for 2x HDDs

     

    On 11/25/2023 at 9:44 PM, sayon said:

    It seem to use a JMB582 (2 ports PCIe 3.0 x1) and looks to be from the same product family than the JMB585 that is recommended. JorgeB might have an opinion on that, but it looks fine for me.

     

    On 11/25/2023 at 9:44 PM, sayon said:

    do you have another 2-port sata one you can suggest?

    Since your motherboard is PCIe gen3, why not go for a 4 ports controller instead ? That would leave you room to add more drives in the future.

    The ASM1064 is gen3 and only uses one lane. (1x gen3 = 985 MB/s)

    https://www.amazon.com.be/s?k=ASM1064&i=electronics&crid=1N22TYXDOEUOD&sprefix=asm1064%2Celectronics%2C56&ref=nb_sb_noss

  3. The question is "how is ext4 handling errors, FS corruption, etc." ?

    As dada051 says, its one more option. Certainly people will choose it and might have problems if its less reliable or less capable of recovery.

  4. I don't know much about SAS drives.

    As for knowing in advance if the drive will have that, I can't say either. From what I read here, I think it is part of the SATA spec for some usecase, not sure the manufacturer indicate that on the specsheet.

  5. 46 minutes ago, Hadi said:

    @JorgeB The molex trick did it. But how can I make the regular sata cable work with it?

    The goal is not to provide 3.3V to the drive, people tend to use one of those 3 options :

    1. use Molex to SATA adapters
    2. use Kapton tape on the 3.3V contact on the drive to prevent the issue (one example of tutorial : https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Fix-the-33V-Pin-Issue-in-White-Label-Disks-/ )
    3. cut the 3.3V cable on the power SATA cable (not sure which one it is myself)

    I prefer #1 but already used #2 on some drives. I don't love #3 myself but some seem to chose that route.

  6. 11 hours ago, DougShields said:

    Some of the LSI SAS HBAs are actually very similar where they plant 2 controllers on 1 card in order to double the port count while also doubling the capacity and cost.

    Which can be fine as long as you double the number of PCIe lanes.

    Here, it is still 8 SATA ports on a x1. Unless I made a mistake on my (early morning) math, even HDDs will have their max bandwidth seriously limited.

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  7. Well, ArtofServer is generally considered a good choice for north america, so I would guess that people didn't had much to offer after your first post.

    On my part, I bought one HBA in Europe. It went well, but I can't say if that's because it was a great seller or some luck.

    So I don't think my opinion on the subject is super interesting.

     

    I think that in general, you don't buy an HBA very often and it's not super expensive. ==> limited experience + small cost = small overall engagement

    If you ask for something that is either more expensive, that you buy more often or have a bigger impact on the system, people will tend to have opinions (not always based on facts, but opinions nonetheless)

     

    Ask about hard drives and you will have all three and plenty of feedback. If you are lucky, some might even be good. :D