Hi all,

 

1) I have a Asmedia chipset HBA 2 port + eSATA pcie x 1 card, does anyone have good

experience running this chipset with unRAID v6.x?

2) Does eSATA port  / USB3.0 counted as 1 storage device in my BASIC tier 1 license?

3) Which is more stable: eSATA port / USB3.0 to have an external backup drive, running attached to unRAID NAS server?

(I read in some forums that USB is not as stable as using SATA for home user NAS)

4) Cache SSD drive, what capacity to need to get? I have some 60GB SSDs would that be sufficient,

I am not running any VMs but some dockers + Windows shares.

 

 

Edited February 26, 20206 yr by wepee

5 minutes ago, wepee said:

1) I have a Asmedia chipset HBA 2 port + eSATA pcie x 1 card, does anyone have good

experience running this chipset with unRAID v6.x?

The Asmedia 106X 2 port controller works well, any Asmedia with more than 2 ports will have a SATA port multiplier and that's not recommended, not clear if you mean 2 ports + external port, or 2 ports total and one can be external.

 

8 minutes ago, wepee said:

2) Does eSATA port  / USB3.0 counted as 1 storage device in my BASIC tier 1 license?

Any connected storage device counts, doesn't matter if it's connected by SATA, USB, eSATA, etc

 

9 minutes ago, wepee said:

3) Which is more stable: eSATA port / USB3.0 to have an external backup drive, running attached to unRAID NAS server?

(I read in some forums that USB is not as stable as using SATA for home user NAS)

eSATA would be better, but avoid cables longer than 1m.

 

9 minutes ago, wepee said:

4) Cache SSD drive, what capacity to need to get? I have some 60GB SSDs would that be sufficient, I am not running any VMs but some dockers + Windows shares.

That's really depends on what you need to use it for, for Dockers 20GB should be more than enough, any user shares can use cache or not, it's up to you.

2 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

The Asmedia 106X 2 port controller works well, any Asmedia with more than 2 ports will have a SATA port multiplier and that's not recommended, not clear if you mean 2 ports + external port, or 2 ports total and one can be external.

@johnnie.blackIt is actually a 2 x  eSATA or 2 x port SATA III connection.

You can either configure the jump to behave an 2 x eSATA or 2 x port SATA III

Link: ASM 1061 2 x eSATA / 2 x SATA III PCIE card

I don't this is a SATA port multiplier card (if I am not mistaken)

 

7 minutes ago, wepee said:

You can either configure the jump to behave an 2 x eSATA or 2 x port SATA III

Yes, that's fine, assuming the controller itself is good quality, the 2 port Asmedia chipset usually works great.