March 27, 20233 yr Got two JMB585 5x Sata, one on the motherboard and one in a nvme slot. Is it better to spread out the drives across them? Say three Hard Drives on each chip.
March 28, 20233 yr Assuming PCIe 3.0 they have enough bandwidth for 5 HDDs, so there won't be any difference, there can be with SSDs.
March 30, 20233 yr Author Yes it's 6 HDD's but ended up scratching the JMB585 idea. Used a m2->pcie riser cable with a 9207-8i at 3.0 1x speeds. Seems to be working fine, maxing out 2.5gbit file transfers. But it will probably bottleneck parity checks. It's a n5105 motherboard without pci-e slots, a bit janky solution but I have more trust in a SAS card.
April 21, 20242 yr On 3/29/2023 at 6:44 PM, Robbaz said: Used a m2->pcie riser cable with a 9207-8i at 3.0 1x speeds. Seems to be working fine, maxing out 2.5gbit file transfers. But it will probably bottleneck parity checks. Very cool! How well does the 9207-8i work with only 4 lanes via the M.2 slot?
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