April 11, 201313 yr I just read about the new HighPoint Rocket 750. It is a 40 port (40 hard drives!) controller card, and each port is a 6GB/s SATA port. At first I thought I was looking at a SAS card (which I was hoping it would be), but it looks like the card's 10 connectors work with 4-way breakout cables, so it really is just SATA and not SAS. It also uses one PCIe 2.0 x8 connection. I would have liked x16, but perhaps it's not necessary. It's supposed to come out this month. I'm currently using 4 PCIe cards (and have found it impossible to get them all running at x4 speed due to BIOS issues) plus another 5 ports from the motherboard. This seems like a nice (albeit expensive) solution. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/201304092345011_HighPoint_Launches_40_Port_Serial_ATA_6Gb_s_Controller_Card.html Now where do I find an affordable 40 bay case....
May 1, 201313 yr Wow $739 from Amazon, I would go with PCIe 8x SAS controller pair with SAS Expander for a lot less.
May 2, 201313 yr Wow $739 from Amazon, I would go with PCIe 8x SAS controller pair with SAS Expander for a lot less. Have to agree. I don't like the idea of putting all your eggs in one basket, so to speak. It is still pretty damn cool though.
March 19, 201412 yr With that drive count, you should investigate the LSI 2308 based controllers which have PCIe 3.0 interface.
April 26, 201412 yr I just read about the new HighPoint Rocket 750. It is a 40 port (40 hard drives!) controller card, and each port is a 6GB/s SATA port. At first I thought I was looking at a SAS card (which I was hoping it would be), but it looks like the card's 10 connectors work with 4-way breakout cables, so it really is just SATA and not SAS. It also uses one PCIe 2.0 x8 connection. I would have liked x16, but perhaps it's not necessary. It's supposed to come out this month. I'm currently using 4 PCIe cards (and have found it impossible to get them all running at x4 speed due to BIOS issues) plus another 5 ports from the motherboard. This seems like a nice (albeit expensive) solution. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage/display/201304092345011_HighPoint_Launches_40_Port_Serial_ATA_6Gb_s_Controller_Card.html Now where do I find an affordable 40 bay case.... do we have a confirmation that this card will work in unraid? i am thinking about getting it. guess i could give it a try and see what happens
April 23, 20188 yr I know this is an old post, 4 years , but yes the Highpoint Rocket 750 - 40-Port SATA 6GB/s is working out of the box.
April 23, 20188 yr 9 minutes ago, Richneerd said: I know this is an old post, 4 years , but yes the Highpoint Rocket 750 - 40-Port SATA 6GB/s is working out of the box. Question is, is it stable? It uses the same chipset as the SAS2LP, so there could be issues with dropped disks, etc.
January 14, 20197 yr I've used my Rocket 750 with unraid since 2016 and I've had zero isues with it. In fact, unraid is the only distro I'm able to get it working at all in.
January 20, 20206 yr Hey, just bought one and there is not one single disk showing connected to this card. I think, with the new kernel it has a problem. Can anyone confirm that? Thanks a lot! BJörn
August 15, 20205 yr Took the plunge and bought one of these off eBay. Works fine with 6.8.3. There is a post in Bug Reports / PreReleases which indicates that it does not work with 6.9.0-beta25.
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