rick.p Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 need to add the last 4 drives to my server, the Supermicro would be overkill (10 drive case, 6 ports on the MB) I was going to just get a couple of the SIL3132 cards from Monoprice but then I saw http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=18428.msg164761#msg164761 "{SOLVED-Beware SiL3132} - How to determine which drive is causing sync errors? " so I'm a little shy of them.. is the SIL3132 really bad? I see it's still on the recommended page on the wiki. Link to comment
speeding_ant Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I've got four of them, no problems with mine! Accept 3Tb + drives and everything Link to comment
Brian B. Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I have 2 of those cards, and am experiencing weird file corruption problems with drive attached to them. Specifically the parity checks breeze thru a-ok every time, but if I run a file compare (across the network) against the source files copied to the drives, I get mismatches, and even better, the mismatches change everything I run the comparison. This doesn't seen to occur with drives hooked up to the motherboard sata ports (still testing this.) However, it's thrown a HUGE wrench into me trusting unraid to be reliable enough to hold my photography collection. Link to comment
rick.p Posted March 28, 2012 Author Share Posted March 28, 2012 ok how about the SY-PEX40008??? Last comment I saw on them here was in feb/12 and 'working fine'.. before that was mar-apr/2011 and discussion about not working with various m'boards... what's the word with 5b14??? Link to comment
Hoopster Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 ok how about the SY-PEX40008??? Last comment I saw on them here was in feb/12 and 'working fine'.. before that was mar-apr/2011 and discussion about not working with various m'boards... what's the word with 5b14??? I have the SYBA PEX-40048 x4 PCIe controller (based on the Marvell 7042 chipset) as opposed to the SY-PEX-40008 which used the Sil 3124 chipset. I have had no problems with the PEX-40048 with 5b14. Link to comment
daniel.boone Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 need to add the last 4 drives to my server, the Supermicro would be overkill (10 drive case, 6 ports on the MB) We always need more ports. Getting the 8 port is a better buy in the long run. I have a adaptec 1430sa. Its a 4 port card that works on my 4.7 build. Can't say if it will work the same on beta14. Link to comment
rick.p Posted March 29, 2012 Author Share Posted March 29, 2012 need to add the last 4 drives to my server, the Supermicro would be overkill (10 drive case, 6 ports on the MB) We always need more ports. Getting the 8 port is a better buy in the long run. yeah but 4 fills up the case, if (when!) I need more I'll build up a second server, trying to avoid the all the eggs in one basket thing Link to comment
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