CaptainSpalding Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I have one x1 PCIe slot available and I was thinking of buying a card that I could use for preclearing. But there are not a lot of those available that would have 2 external SATA connectors. I tought I would connect some 2 drive enclosure to it. And use that just for preclearing. What would you recommend? Is x1 enough for two drives preclearing at the same time? Suggestions on 2 hard drive enclosures will be appreciated as well! Link to comment
dirtysanchez Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Assuming your motherboard slot and card are at least PCIe 2.0, it should be sufficient for 2 spinners. An x1 PCIe 2.0 slot has 500MB/s of bandwidth, and even the fastest spinners top out around 190MB/s. Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 Thanks, specs show that P5E-Q shoud be PCIe 2.0. Was it a Sil3121 card that would work with the unraid? Link to comment
cassiusdrow Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 I just bought a SYBA SD-PEX40049 card specifically for preclearing. It's a 2 port PCI-E 2.0 x1 SATA III card where each port can be either be internal or external. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124051 http://www.amazon.com/Syba-6Gbps-Switch-eSATA-SD-PEX40049/dp/B006SF68OS/ EDIT: Don't use this in an unRAID array: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36289.0 Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 Thanks! I also have not found a thread for installing 'screen' to v5.0. I have read that it would need some other packages as well to work? Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 I read that that Syba SD-PEX40049 does not support 4TB drives. Is there any card that would? Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 I read that that Syba SD-PEX40049 does not support 4TB drives. Is there any card that would? That card uses a ASM1061 chip. I have the MediaSonic version of that card and it supports > 2.2TB drives just fine in Windows so not a card problem might be a driver problem however. Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 23, 2013 Author Share Posted December 23, 2013 Hmm... the manufacturer says "Up to 3TB". http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1195 But may just not update info. Thanks! EDIT: I found a Silverstone SST-EC05 pretty cheap at a local store. It's got Marvell 88SE9130, so it should work? Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Hmm... the manufacturer says "Up to 3TB". http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1195 But may just not update info. Thanks! If it supports 3TB it is highly unlikely they don't support 4TB. The next unsupported size is > 64TB (I think - but could easily be wrong). Link to comment
garycase Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 You're not wrong. If it supports 3TB drives, then it supports 4TB, 5TB, etc. The actual size limit for a GPT partition is 18 Exabytes !! [18 million TB ], although I don't know what the Linux file system restriction is (e.g. the max Windows size is 256TB). ... but I don't think you'll need to worry about whether the controller will support any drive you'll be buying in the foreseeable future Link to comment
Harpz Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 I recently got one of these from ebay and it arrived Friday, fitted Saturday and plugged two drives into and ran a couple non correcting parity check, zero issues at all, great little card. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-2-eSATA-SATA-3-0-to-PCI-E-PCI-Express-Card-Adapter-Converter-6-0Gbps-ASM1061-/141006206664? Link to comment
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