PCI-e Sata expansion card

[bluetruck78]

I'm looking for a SATA expansion card that doesn't use a Marvell SATA controller. My motherboard has a Marvell SATA controller. I had tried using an expansion card with a Marvell controller and it caused conflicts with the controller on my motherboard preventing my system from booting. Anybody else have an issue like this? I'm thinking this card, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ST9CPND, would do the trick.

[JorgeB]

11 hours ago, razz said:

has three PCIe x1 Slot

That controller is x4, it can work on the GPU slot (if available), otherwise you have a 2 port model which uses a x1 slot, there's also one from Asmedia.

[JorgeB]

3 hours ago, bluetruck78 said:

I'm thinking this card, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ST9CPND, would do the trick.

Yes, that will work, it's the model mentioned on this thread.

[martinf]

If you need more SATA ports, I recommend you go for a SAS card and break out cables (sas -> 4 SATA connectors). Ideally two SAS ports giving you up to 8 SATA devices. However, this allows you in the future to use the card for SAS back planes. There are plenty of Dell (LSI) cards out there for not much money. I picked up mine on EBay for about $40 with 2 break out cables. I use to have PCIe SATA card (4 ports) but occationally, they generated CRC errors with fast disks (SSD).

My $0.02...

Martin

[ClawSS]

Can someone use this:

IO CREST SI-PEX40138 Internal 4 Port Non-Raid SATA III 6GB/S with M.2 B-Key 22x42 Pci-E X4 Controller Card for Desktop PC Support SSD and HDD with Low Profile Bracket. JMB585 Chipset

 

with this and get 9 ports???

IO CREST Internal 5 Port Non-Raid SATA III 6GB/s M.2 B+M Key Adapter Card for Desktop PC Support SSD and HDD. JMB585 Chipset

Edited April 28, 2020 by ClawSS
oops

[JorgeB]

3 minutes ago, ClawSS said:

Can someone use this:

No, the M.2 port is SATA, not PCIe

[ClawSS]

15 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

No, the M.2 port is SATA, not PCIe

You are absolutely correct...my bad for not looking hard enough at the connections first.

 

But I think either is good in its own right for unraid connectivity and controlling SATA.  Yes?

[JorgeB]

5 minutes ago, ClawSS said:

But I think either is good in its own right for unraid connectivity and controlling SATA.  Yes?

Yes, all indications are that controllers based on the JMB585 chipset (also the 2 port version JMB582) work reliably with Unraid, I have one for a few months.

[pras1011]

Still working tee-tee jorge?

[JorgeB]

16 minutes ago, pras1011 said:

Still working tee-tee jorge?

Yep, no issues.

[pras1011]

Which is better the Jeyi or getting a card for expansion?

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[JorgeB]

18 minutes ago, pras1011 said:

the Jeyi

I don't know what this is.

[pras1011]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174281491024

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[JorgeB]

Same thing as any other JMB585 controller, depends if you prefer to use a PCIe slot or an M.2 slot.

[iDJMic]

I only have PCIe x1 slot available is there a card I can use that is compatible anyone can recommend?

[Hoopster]

22 minutes ago, iDJMic said:

I only have PCIe x1 slot available is there a card I can use that is compatible anyone can recommend?

With PCIe x1 you can really only get a 2-port SATA card. 

 

Look for something based on the JMicron JMB582 or ASMedia ASM1061 controller chip.  There are some from Syba, IO Crest, etc.

[iDJMic]

What about this one?

http://www.ziyituod.net/ProDetail.aspx?ProId=111

[Hoopster]

11 minutes ago, iDJMic said:

What about this one?

http://www.ziyituod.net/ProDetail.aspx?ProId=111

The 1093 chip on that board is a port multiplier.  That's how you get 4 ports out of what should really only be a 2-port card in x1.  Port multipliers are not a good thing with unRAID.

Edited October 12, 2020 by Hoopster

[iDJMic]

Would this card have to be flashed or does it work out of box?

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B002RL8I7M

[Linguafoeda]

Hi - is there any downsides at all to using this I/O Crest M.2 card vs. a dedicated LSI HBA like the 9207-8i? I only have 1 PCI slot so I'm trying to save that slot for a GPU or flash accelerator SSD, and would love to use this little M.2 adapter if there's no performance difference driving 5x 5400rpm HDDs

[JorgeB]

1 hour ago, DrivePool9015 said:

if there's no performance difference driving 5x 5400rpm HDDs

See here.

[Linguafoeda]

On 12/1/2020 at 4:46 AM, JorgeB said:

See here.

  

On 9/21/2015 at 10:47 AM, JorgeB said:

JMicron JMB585 PCIe gen3 x2 (1970MB/s) - e.g., SYBA SI-PEX40139 and other similar cards

2 x 570MB/s

3 x 565MB/s

4 x 440MB/s

5 x 350MB/s

 

Ah thank you so much. Does this imply that 350MB/s per drive for the JMB585 should pose no real world issues if I'm only dealing with JBOD 5400RPM HDDs? I'm building a server that I will likely use for the next 5-10 years and down the line I'd like to add 10GbE networking for transferring files in and out of the SSD cache, but my understanding is that 5400RPM HDDs in non-RAID/stripe wouldn't even be able to keep up with something like 350MB/s limit imposed by the controller unless I switch my entire array over to maybe 15k SAS drives or SSDs?

 

For reference, I usually see these drives write speeds at ~125MB/s copying between my 5400 spinners in an external USB-C DAS, so I assume there's no real world issues on either reads or writes if connecting them to a controller that can only handle 350MB/s max per drive.

 

Also is this 350MB/s speed only applicable if all 5 drives were being accessed at the same time? Would it be significantly faster if I was only writing to 1 drive at any moment in time?

Edited December 3, 2020 by DrivePool9015

[JorgeB]

1 hour ago, DrivePool9015 said:

Does this imply that 350MB/s per drive for the JMB585 should pose no real world issues if I'm only dealing with JBOD 5400RPM HDDs

Yes, no current HDD can get close to those speeds, only if using SSDs you'd need to worry. 

[Linguafoeda]

very helpful, thank you so much. Your knowledge is invaluable!

[methanoid]

ASM1064 any good?   Only info I can find is here  https://sata-io.org/product/8756    

 

Card is PCIE x1 3.0 so 1000Mb/s bandwidth over 4 ports SHOULD be good??  https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001590302280.html