SYBA SI-PEX40071 (8xSATAIII) Controller

[trbroyles1]

Hi all!

 

My 6 TB NAS is about full so it's time to upgrade.

 

unRAID caught my eye because it would let me mix and match drives of varying sizes and get 100% usage of them.

 

I'm speccing out a system right now with a total of 16 SATA ports. 8 on the MOBO. I'm looking at the Syba SI-PEX40071 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124070 -- Marvell 88SE9705 chipset) to add another 8 ports.

 

The card is listed as working "straight out of the box" on the wiki...but it would be great to hear a community confirmation of that before shelling out the $$$ on it. Any feedback?

 

Thanks!

 

 

[SSD]

Hi all!

 

My 6 TB NAS is about full so it's time to upgrade.

 

unRAID caught my eye because it would let me mix and match drives of varying sizes and get 100% usage of them.

 

I'm speccing out a system right now with a total of 16 SATA ports. 8 on the MOBO. I'm looking at the Syba SI-PEX40071 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124070 -- Marvell 88SE9705 chipset) to add another 8 ports.

 

The card is listed as working "straight out of the box" on the wiki...but it would be great to hear a community confirmation of that before shelling out the $$$ on it. Any feedback?

 

Thanks!

 

Not sure why that controller caught your fancy. Are you needing it to fit in a narrow slot. I wouldn't want 8 drives running off of 2 lanes. If you have an x8 slot, I'd recomend the SAS2LP or the M1015. Both about the same price but much better for simultaneous I/O (e.g., parity checks).

[trbroyles1]

Great recommendation, thank you I will look @ getting one of those instead.

[garycase]

Agree it's best to have more than 2 lanes if available.  Since few motherboards have x2 slots, I suspect you have at least an x4, and likely an x8 or x16 slot available, so you can use a board that will take advantage of those additional lanes.