July 6, 20224 yr A quick that must probably has been answered before but my search fu isn't working today. Due to a catastrophic mobo error, I have to quickly replace my board and get my server up again quickly. The board that's arriving is an ASUS TUF B365M-Plus Gaming. After recently upgrading to 18Tb disks I can use the 6 onboard SATA + 2xM.2 with ports to spare. I also have an LSI 9211-i8 controller that's in the current dead server and a recently purchased 2nd hand Dell HBA, which is an LSI 9207-i8. What's going to give me the best performance, all on the onboard SATA, or on an LSI running on the x4 PCIe slot? Would using the x16 slot make a difference? If we're talking miniscule differences I might go the LSA simply because the cabling will be neater. Any advice would be most welcome.
July 6, 20224 yr 9211 could limit performance a little in an x4 slot with 6 fast disks, other 2 options will be the same.
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