Hey folks,

 

Wondering if some of you smart peoples can lend me some direction.....

 

I just swapped out the my motherboard/CPU/RAM to a new board - an Asus X79-Deluxe with an i7.

 

Previous board was doing ok but the opportunity was had so I took it. Previous board only had 6 SATA ports so I added in a a Dell Perc H310 reprogrammed etc to get the ports I needed.

 

Now with the new board I has 12 available SATA ports (+2 ESata)

Intel® X79 chipset :

2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), black

4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), black

Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10

Marvell® PCIe 9230 controller :

4 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), dark brown

ASMedia® ASM1061 controller :

2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), dark brown

2 x Power eSATA 6Gb/s port(s), green

 

Now the question...

 

I have 8 HD's + 1 SSD connected. Right now the 8 HD's are connected to the H310 and the SSD connected to the X79 port.

 

Performance wise how would the H310 compare to the Onboard sata  ports? Am I better use one the other or a mixture of both?

 

Usage wise I am running several dockers, and a windows VM. The array contains 7 HD's, 1 is left out and used as a Data drive for the Windows VM to write out Video surveillance.

 

Any input thought or questions are appreciated!

 

Many thanks!

 

Mike

Anyone able to comment on speed/performance of the H310 vs the Intel X79 Sata ports?

 

Thanks!

Performance should be pretty much identical either way.

The H310 is PCIe x8, so there's plenty of bandwidth for the connected drives.  So it shouldn't matter where the drives are connected.

Thanks folks... It was what I was hoping to hear... I appreciate you taking the time to reply!

 

Onto new issues (Docker issues!) and a new post.

 

Mike