February 29, 20206 yr Hi I have a ROG Strix X570-E Motherboard and all 8-Sata Ports are in use. My 3 x PCIe 4.0 x4 Slots are not available. There are two PCIe 4.0 x1 Slots which I can use. Which card would you recommend, I would like to connect additional 2-4 Sata hard drives? Thank you!
March 1, 20206 yr Author 22 hours ago, testdasi said: They don't exist. These cards would fit or did I misunderstand something? https://www.amazon.de/Port-SATA-Controller-Express-Schnittstellenkarte/dp/B00BUC3N74
March 1, 20206 yr That doesn't fit your given criteria, as it's a PCIe 2.0 card. 2 port PCIe 3.0 x1 cards have been reported to work, such as https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y92RDKH/ref=psdc_284718_t3_B07ST9CPND 5 port M.2 cards have also been reported to work, such as https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Non-Raid-Adapter-Desktop-Support/dp/B07T3RMFFT/ref=pd_sbs_147_3/140-7161017-3944644?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07T3RMFFT&pd_rd_r=84f3688b-e0bf-4c6f-9c4e-8c39590991fd&pd_rd_w=zNcnt&pd_rd_wg=8Z9Fk&pf_rd_p=7c0dad87-8a25-4c4f-9349-026039ea6cb3&pf_rd_r=RAV90H0GGEAF6CSFGNTS&psc=1&refRID=RAV90H0GGEAF6CSFGNTS Stick with the JMicron chipsets and avoid Marvell for the best results
March 2, 20206 yr Author 17 hours ago, Michael_P said: That doesn't fit your given criteria, as it's a PCIe 2.0 card. 2 port PCIe 3.0 x1 cards have been reported to work, such as https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y92RDKH/ref=psdc_284718_t3_B07ST9CPND 5 port M.2 cards have also been reported to work, such as https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Non-Raid-Adapter-Desktop-Support/dp/B07T3RMFFT/ref=pd_sbs_147_3/140-7161017-3944644?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07T3RMFFT&pd_rd_r=84f3688b-e0bf-4c6f-9c4e-8c39590991fd&pd_rd_w=zNcnt&pd_rd_wg=8Z9Fk&pf_rd_p=7c0dad87-8a25-4c4f-9349-026039ea6cb3&pf_rd_r=RAV90H0GGEAF6CSFGNTS&psc=1&refRID=RAV90H0GGEAF6CSFGNTS Stick with the JMicron chipsets and avoid Marvell for the best results Thank you very much! Somehow I missed the 2.0 ... I will try this one -> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y92RDKH/ref=psdc_284718_t3_B07ST9CPND Thanks!
October 25, 20205 yr Author 1 hour ago, methanoid said: How well did it work then? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y92RDKH/ref=psdc_284718_t3_B07ST9CPND This one works stable. I'm happy with it.
October 25, 20205 yr Thanks... I did some searching and found this 4 port PCIe 3.0 card, cheap too, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001590302280.html
October 25, 20205 yr Author It's cheap for a 4- port. The question is does it work properly?! Anyway, I don't have space in my case for two more HDDs. All 10 Slots are occupied. Thank you anyway.
September 7, 20214 yr So 1 year later and still no Gen 4 x1 card available. I believe the best option out there is the ASM1064 chipset (https://www.asmedia.com.tw/products-list/8a2YQ99xzaUH2qg5/58dYQ8bxZ4UR9wG5) It's Gen 3 x1 which theoretically allows for 1 GB/s total. They sell the card on amazon in variants of 4,6,8 ports for ~40$-60$ and I believe asmedia is compatible with Unraid. Although SATA 3.0 is 6 Gb/s (750MB/s), if you're using this card for the Unraid array, each drive only reaches 60MB/s or so on average so maybe you can get away with putting 4 drives or more on 1 card using this chipset. Has anyone put a ASM1064 card on their unraid server and can comment on bandwidth limitation? Does anyone know if ASMedia plans to release a Gen4 x1 chipset in the future?
September 7, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, bigbangus said: Has anyone put a ASM1064 card on their unraid server and can comment on bandwidth limitation? See here:
September 7, 20214 yr Amazing work. quoting your results from the ASM1064 using an SSD array: Asmedia ASM1064 PCIe gen3 x1 (985MB/s) - e.g., SYBA SI-PEX40156 and other similar cards 2 x 450MB/s 3 x 300MB/s 4 x 225MB/s Looks like you can easily get away with 4 drives on a ASM1064 PCI 3.0 x1 if they are all magnetic. Edited September 7, 20214 yr by bigbangus
September 14, 20214 yr On 9/7/2021 at 4:23 PM, bigbangus said: Amazing work. quoting your results from the ASM1064 using an SSD array: Asmedia ASM1064 PCIe gen3 x1 (985MB/s) - e.g., SYBA SI-PEX40156 and other similar cards 2 x 450MB/s 3 x 300MB/s 4 x 225MB/s Looks like you can easily get away with 4 drives on a ASM1064 PCI 3.0 x1 if they are all magnetic. 6 ports @ 150MB/s would work fine.. not like many spinning drives actually consistently break 150MB/s
May 19, 20251 yr I'm using a pcie 3.0 x4 card. Believe it's the asmedia 1166 chipset, and has 6 sata ports...works great for me... I have x4 ironwolfs running off of it and 2 ssds. https://a.co/d/gc4ZRSD
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