GeorgeJetson20 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 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). Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 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. Quote Link to comment
GeorgeJetson20 Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 No it's not raid - just wanted to double check before ordering Quote Link to comment
Gragorg Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment
GeorgeJetson20 Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 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? Quote Link to comment
Gragorg Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 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. Quote Link to comment
GeorgeJetson20 Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 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 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 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. Quote Link to comment
GeorgeJetson20 Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment
GeorgeJetson20 Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 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. Quote Link to comment
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