July 27, 20214 yr Both of those cards are going to run the same. I would take the cheapest of the 2. also only use those for the Data array. Not the parity or cache drive. best to use onboard sata 3 ports for SSD's. and parity you want good I/O too. you can put data drives on the add on cards. it will be a little bit slower than your on board. but generally sense you getting just the 2 port models you should be fine. I found out this weekend I had my drive setup all wrong. and I ended up speeding up my parity check for my 28tb array. use to take 1.5 days now I got it down to 17.5 hours. I really should have look into the forms and the manuals more a little bit more when they talked about sata ports and add on. it looks like you did more work than I did looking into that.
July 29, 20214 yr Author Very useful suggestion. Thanks, I was about to connect my cache drive to this. Yikes.
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