September 23, 20196 yr Hi All, Looks like my "use Port Multipliers with ProBox 4-bay enclosures" was a really bad idea. I have a system that has 2 x PCIe port-multiplier cards connecting 4 x ProBox 4-bay enclosures using eSATA cables and my Unraid I/O performance is terrible with 16 SATA drives connected. A Parity-Sync/Rebuild is varying estimates from 5 days to 30 days to complete on a 10TB parity drive (total 102TB across 16 drives). Now after further reading/research, looks like the best way to go is an LSI Logic 16-port HBA and a case that can hold the 16 drives. I would like to re-use my CPU/Motherboard/Memory even though it's an old AMD Phenom X4 with 8GB RAM, mainly to try and save on costs. I guess I am asking for advice on what is the cheapest way to migrate my 16 drives to a new build (without any custom construction,etc as I've seen on reddit). Thanks!
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