[PCI-e Sata expansion card]

On 12/1/2022 at 4:53 PM, tr3bjockey said:

I combined this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N8MCDTZ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

with this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VGTMX7W

 

I didn't think this would work at all, but so far it's working (past hour). 

 

UPDATE:  This has worked flawlessly and no more UDMA CRC error counts.  Going to toss this IO CREST Internal 5 Port Non-Raid SATA III in the trash which was causing my problems.

 

 

 

I'm wondering if this will work in my setup. I have windows server 2016 essentials running on older Asus P8H67-M EVO motherboard. It has 2 SataI3 and 4 Sata2 ports. I use sata 3 for boot drive and have 3 Sata3 drives connected to 3 out 4 Sata 2 port. Then I use MS storage for raid 5 for those 3 drives. I got my self IO CREST 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 3.0 x1 Expansion Card Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket ASMedia 1064 SI-PEX40156 card.

My MB has

Slot 1 PCI Express 2.0 x16

Slot 2 PCI Express x1

Slot 3 PCI

Slot 4 PCI Express x4 in a x16 size

I believe all those are PCI Express 2.0

 

Do you think using your setup would work better than just the card?

My drives are physical enterprise Hitachi 4TB drives(3x4tb drives in RAID5 = 8TB storage). Not really planning to upgrade to ssd at those sizes any time soon. I'm just trying to increase the throughput.

Or maybe it is time to upgrade the whole setup with a more modern MB and CPU.

I'm primarily using WSE 2016 as a clients backups. 

 

Thanks in advanced.