March 3, 200818 yr Anyone ever used this card? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815280008 Seems like it should work? Others have said that the sil3132 chipset is good for unraid? I've never heard of MassCool before. Thoughts??????
March 3, 200818 yr The card looks like a good deal, BUT... Some of us have Sil3132-based cards, and they work fine with unRAID, very fast, PCI Express, SATA II, and with port multiplier support for the future (with adapter can connect up to 5 drives per port). MassCool has been around for a little while, making inexpensive cooling accessories and drive enclosures for PC's, reputation is average. Unfortunately, I'm almost positive that the Sil3132 chipset supports 2 ports only. In fact, I think the last digit is the number of ports, just like the Sil3114 is the 4 port version of the 2 port Sil3112. And when I see the bank of jumpers on this card (somewhat unusual for a SATA card), I suspect they are for determining which 2 ports you can actually use. I suspect you can either have 2 internal or 2 external or perhaps 1 internal plus 1 external. Someone will have to confirm this, I could be all wrong. It's still a very good deal, and that gives you a very flexible card to use. One caution, with a similar card, I have had a SATA cable slip off the internal SATA connector. I doublecheck these connectors every time, just before closing the computer case, if I have to work inside.
March 3, 200818 yr Author Well Crap..... You're right. http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?id=32 So its back to the drawing board for me. I need a card that has at least 4 available ports. My motherboard has 3 x1 slots, and 1 x16 slot and 3 regular PCI. I could get the old standy by SX4 card, or the Supermicro one, but I just can't bring myself to purchase a regular PCI card for this purpose. According to this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=731.0 This card might work. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115029 Has anyone had any luck with another PCI Express card, they would like to tell me about?
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