Gragorg Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 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? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 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. 1 Quote Link to comment
Gragorg Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 (edited) 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, 2021 by Gragorg Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment
Gragorg Posted April 15, 2021 Author Share Posted April 15, 2021 12 hours ago, JorgeB said: 6 port Asmedia ASM1166. Any cards you could recommend? I haven't had much luck finding any. Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 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 1 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 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 1 Quote Link to comment
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