April 12, 20215 yr My current setup has 8 sata ports (4 sata 2.0, 4 sata 3.0)on the motherboard. They are currently filled. In the near future I am looking at grabbing a used LSI card from ebay. Is it worth the extra paying the extra money for a 9300 series vs a 9200 series card? What performance difference would you expect to see between the two?
April 12, 20215 yr 52 minutes ago, Gragorg said: Is it worth the extra paying the extra money for a 9300 series vs a 9200 series card? Not unless you're going to be using SSDs or a SAS expander with more than the 8 devices.
April 14, 20215 yr Author I was also considering a Syba/IOcrest SI-PEX40139 since I really shouldn't need 8 more drives in this server. My current motherboard is an Asrock Z77 Extreme4 which has: - 2 x PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (PCIE2/PCIE3: single at x16 (PCIE2) / x8 (PCIE3) or dual at x8/x8 mode) - 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x1 slots - 2 x PCI slots I assume either card would work fine in one of the PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (SLI)? Edited April 14, 20215 yr by Gragorg
April 14, 20215 yr 2 minutes ago, Gragorg said: I assume either card would work fine in one of the PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots (SLI)? It should, another possible option would be the 6 port Asmedia ASM1166.
April 15, 20215 yr Author 12 hours ago, JorgeB said: 6 port Asmedia ASM1166. Any cards you could recommend? I haven't had much luck finding any.
April 15, 20215 yr 15 minutes ago, Gragorg said: Any cards you could recommend? I haven't had much luck finding any. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Silverstone-SST-ECS06-6Port-SATA-Gen3-6Gbps-Non-RAID-PCI-E-Low-Profile-Card-/333915822650?hash=item4dbeef1a3a
April 15, 20215 yr I have this one: https://www.amazon.com/BEYIMEI-Controller-Expansion-Non-Raid-Converter/dp/B08DFK4LZ7/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=asm1166&qid=1618470992&sr=8-1
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