External Dock to expand rock solid server

[danioj]

Hi All,

 

I build my bother in law a server that was pretty much a mirror of mine (see sig). 2 years ago he run out of pace and wanted a cheap way to upgrade. I stuck in a Marvell PCIE SATA expander and managed to get it nice and stable. So much so, I even bought one.

 

Long story short, he wants to upgrade again (cheapest possible route is the goal). No more space in the case, no more SATA ports "internally" and he doesn't want to upgrade smaller disks to higher capacity disks (my recommendation originally).

 

He saw this:

 

https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/hard-drives-&-ssds/enclosures/56549-ib-3640su3

 

Now, that Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9230 PCIe 2.0 x2 4-port SATA 6 Gb/s RAID Controller (rev 11) card also has 2 external eSATA ports. What sort of stability can he expect from hooking up the above JBOD dock to one of those ports. Will unRAID play nice?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

D