Recommended controllers for Unraid


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1 hour ago, Ethnod said:

Would someone be able to please confirm for me if this card will work to expand my storage?

I am not an expert on HBA cards, but here is what I can tell you about the card you linked:

  • It uses the ASMedia 1061 chipset which supports 2 SATA ports.
  • Although the ASM1061 supports port multipliers (bad for use with Unraid) this card does not appear to utilize port multipliers.
  • The card specs state is uses 4 host controllers (ASM1061 chips) onboard which would support 8 SATA drives without multipliers.
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  • The card is PCIe 2.0 which means after subtracting 20% for overhead (typical), This PCIe x4 card would have 1600 MB/s available bandwidth for 8 SATA drives or ~200 MB/s per drive when all drives are in use simultaneously (parity checks and disk rebuilds). This is sufficient for most HDDs.
  • You may wish to avoid connecting SDDs to this card although it says it does support TRIM operations (many HBAs do not support TRIM).  Bandwidth for a SATA SDD would be limited.

Many ASMedia cards are known to work well with Unraid as long as you avoid the ones with port multipliers.

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Hi,

 

Hope my question is okay in this thread.

 

I am building a new compact Unraid box, as a much needed upgrade to my old one. Will be use an Intel i3-12100 with an ASUS PRIME H610I-PLUS D4 mother board. This board only has 4 SATA ports, so was planning to expand this to a total of 8 using a 4 port pcie - Asmedia ASM1064 - this one specifically if important: https://www.delock.com/produkt/90010/merkmale.html

 

Everything is on the way to me, but suddenly I am in doubt if when using this pcie card, the sata ports on the motherboard will be disabled - leaving me with just the 4 sata ports on the expansion card now?

 

If that is the case - would using a sata expansion card in the m2 slot be the way to go instead?

 

Thanks :)

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Silly spelling..
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12 hours ago, Underberg said:

was planning to expand this to a total of 8

May I ask which compact case you're planning to use?

8 HDDs in a min-ITX case sounds like a very difficult task to make it work.

Or is it 6 HDDs + 2 SSDs?

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8 hours ago, JorgeB said:

They won't be disabled.

Amazing - thanks!

 

6 hours ago, Lolight said:

May I ask which compact case you're planning to use?

8 HDDs in a min-ITX case sounds like a very difficult task to make it work.

Or is it 6 HDDs + 2 SSDs?

A Silverstone DS380

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Hello JorgeB,

 

I bought this card : https://www.amazon.fr/BEYIMEI-contrôleur-dextension-Adaptateur-Ordinateur/dp/B07PRRQ41J/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

It is a ASM1061, which is supposed to work with Unraid.

 

After plug-in it (with one SSD attached), four drives (connected to the motherboard) went in error state, and one of these (non-pool drives) were "disabled" (following your advice, i ran a filesystem check and it is now rebuilding).

 

I don't undertand why.

 

I have 2 CGs (PCIe 3.0 x8 and x4) and one HBA LSI 9200-8i (PCIe 3.0 x2, if i understand well my ASRock X570S PG Riptide motherboard), and two PCIe 1x port are masked (because of CG), so only have one PCI 1x availaible. I thought it was a good option.

 

Do you think i can try your "4 ports: Asmedia ASM1064 (PCIe 3.0 x1)" (like this one : https://www.amazon.fr/IO-Crest-ASMedia-Non-Raid-Support/dp/B08J2PK1HF), or i will have the same issue ?

 

Thanks for your time,

 

K.

 

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Hi, I need an advice.

 

I bought 16 wd red plus HDDs, 4 SSDs and a meshify 2 xl case which has space for all my drives in storage layout. I wanted to make a fast and very big HDD storage for my PC, using windows Storage Spaces in RAID10 mode with ReFS file system, but I soon found out that my 2 Adaptec 7805 raid controllers are HOT. Like, 115 C° in HBA mode. I can return it to Amazon because they also didn't had cables listed in their description, but now I need to pick another 2 8i raid or HBA/IT controllers. Ones that aren't super hot.

 

Could you please recommend me a RAID/IT/HBA controller with 2 internal SAS ports (usually marked as 8i) which has a reasonable price and can work in a normal PC case with 6 fans on like 1000-1200 RPM staying at least under 100 C°?

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7 hours ago, Thatstoohot said:

Could you please recommend me a RAID/IT/HBA controller with 2 internal SAS ports (usually marked as 8i) which has a reasonable price and can work in a normal PC case with 6 fans on like 1000-1200 RPM staying at least under 100 C°?

Unless one of those fans is blowing air directly on the HBAs, like a side case fan, it likely won't be enough, these are server controllers that require a decent amount of airflow around them.

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2 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Unless one of those fans is blowing air directly on the HBAs, like a side case fan, it likely won't be enough, these are server controllers that require a decent amount of airflow around them.

I would give it a try. I will just add some active cooling if the controller you would recommend will overheat too.

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