rikdegraaff Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 And can I use the 2 last ports on the Intel card, as shown on your picture, for cabling to the SAS Adapter 2X Internal SFF-8087 to 2X External SFF-8088 Slot? Because I will use then 4 port on the Intel and just 2 on the sas adapter. Are those 2 ports enough to send through the 4 other disk ports so to speak? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 19 minutes ago, rikdegraaff said: And can I use the 2 last ports on the Intel card, as shown on your picture, for cabling to the SAS Adapter 2X Internal SFF-8087 to 2X External SFF-8088 Slot? Not sure I follow, you have two options Connect one cable from the HBA to the expander, max usable bandwidth will be around 2200MB/s, you can use the remaining 5 wide ports on the expander to connect up to 20 devices. Connect two cables from the HBA to the expander, max usable bandwidth will be around 4400MB/s, you can use the remaining 4 wide ports on the expander to connect up to 16 devices. Quote Link to comment
rikdegraaff Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 49 minutes ago, JorgeB said: Not sure I follow, you have two options Connect one cable from the HBA to the expander, max usable bandwidth will be around 2200MB/s, you can use the remaining 5 wide ports on the expander to connect up to 20 devices. Connect two cables from the HBA to the expander, max usable bandwidth will be around 4400MB/s, you can use the remaining 4 wide ports on the expander to connect up to 16 devices. That is indeed what I meant. Sorry for being so unclear, but you understood it. I will connect for the first time 2 cables, do I need more devices (because my second tower only houses max. 15 devices I think.) then I'll disconnect one and see for myself if that still gives enough bandwith. So far so good. Thanks again! 1 Quote Link to comment
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