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Two Supermicro's or onboard?

tucansam
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I have an Asus MB with an Athlon X2 for unraid, and it has six SATA3 ports onboard.  I have a single five-drive cage installed, and plan on running a cache drive, a parity drive, and four data drives to start.

 

At some point I will add a second, and then third, five-drive cage, so I will have a total of 16 drives in the system.

 

I'm concerned about the onboard SATA ports competing for bandwidth on the system bus.  I am wondering if I shouldn't just get an 8-port Supermicro PCIe controller now, and run everything off it?  And then add a second one later.

 

Which config is likely to offer me the best performance?

 

Thanks.

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    On board SATA ports are almost always faster than a fully populated Supermicro SASLP. SAS2LP has enough bandwidth that it will not make a difference.

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