LSI/Hard Drive controller question

[GeorgeJetson20]

If I replace the current motherboard controller (6 ports) with an LSI controller card, will I lose any data?  I started reading through the threads but I didn't see this specific question.  From my reading, I should get better drive performance from the LSI card.   I also am currently using a cheap 50.00 10 port card which would be replaced with the LSI 8 or 16 card (didn't decide yet).

 

 

 

 

 

[itimpi]

It depends whether the onboard disk controller is a RAID one or not.    If it is not then the drives should transfer transparently to a LSI card.   If the current controller is a RAID one then you may have to do more work to get the data transferred to LSI connected dries.

[GeorgeJetson20]

No it's not raid - just wanted to double check before ordering

[Gragorg]

You won't see a performance difference with a LSI card your current board is not capping your drive speed.

Edited March 19 by Gragorg

[GeorgeJetson20]

Oh really?   When copying files locally from drive to drive, I am only getting about 100-190mbit and sometimes dropped WAY down to 20mbit or less - I thought the bottleneck was with the motherboard or the current controller card?

[Gragorg]

I'm not familiar with your controller card but you motherboard won't slow them down.  JorgeB did some good testing on controllers you can find here.

[GeorgeJetson20]

My thinking was because it was using the pci lanes and there was nothing else available so that is why I thought replacing all the motherboard ports and removing the controller card for the extra 10 ports would speed up the bottleneck

[JorgeB]

11 hours ago, GeorgeJetson20 said:

 I also am currently using a cheap 50.00 10 port card

This will likely have a SATA port multiplier, if that's the case, the LSI will perform better.

[GeorgeJetson20]

I am going to go for it and see what happens.  Ordering the 9300 x16 - I think 

 

ERR - I think I might keep reading before doing it now because I was reading that it gets VERY hot and can damage the MB - I definitely don't want to deal with that 

Edited March 20 by GeorgeJetson20

[GeorgeJetson20]

Glad I didn't order it, after reading a little more, the card gets to 150 F and both of my cases have good cooling with 6 or 7 fans but I don't think the motherboard can handle that temperature.   The cases this would be for is both Phantekone (Phantek) and Tower (Fractal Design Meshify 2) See the specs in my signature above.