May 28, 201412 yr Greetings, community at large! Quick question, I want to add some more drive to my unRAID system now that we're allowed 24. I currently have two (2) LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08) cards in my server. Can I add another 4-port PCI SATA card to this system, or will it break when combined with the above cards? I appreciate the advice, even if it's "I don't know"
May 28, 201412 yr I don't know about compatibility issues but you didn't provide any info on the number of drives you have, your motherboard, what PCI slots the current cards are connected to, etc.
May 29, 201412 yr Author I don't know about compatibility issues but you didn't provide any info on the number of drives you have, your motherboard, what PCI slots the current cards are connected to, etc. I had posted that they were PCIe cards, I was mostly going for a generalized "that's not going to work at all" before I got specific I have an ASUS M5A97 r2.0 board. It's got 21 drives in it now, 16 on the AOC cards and 5 on the motherboard SATA bus. I'd like to bring it up the 24 data drives so I'd need to add my 4-port PCI SATA card in there.
May 29, 201412 yr Should work. If you have a cache disk I'd recommend putting it on the PCI card with 2 data drives. Then you'd only have 2 array disks on the PCI card which will mean faster parity checks.
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