January 13, 201115 yr Had a quick look but couldn't see a reason. Why do you guys use cards such as the SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 when you can pick up standard pcie sata cards for a lot less? Is it because they are faster? More reliable? EDIT: Think i've missed the obvious. Is it because it's actually pretty cheap for a 8 port sata card?
January 13, 201115 yr How else are you going to get 20+ disks into a server? Even with a motherboard with 8 onboard sata, you'd still need 12 slots (3x4 slot cards or 6x2 slot cards) to expand to that. The fact that it runs on the PCI-Express bus also provides much more bandwidth capacity. Attempting to run that many drives on the PCI bus would result is some pretty abysmal performance numbers.
January 13, 201115 yr Nope somebody else might of been thinking the same thing. If you read my build thread it outright thanks one person for picking out my parts. It wasn't me. LOL
January 13, 201115 yr Perfectly reasonable question. Some people only need to run 3-4 disk unRAID servers while other media junkies run 18-20 disk servers. Just a way for us to cram everything into one box
January 17, 201115 yr In hindsight, it was a stupid question. No such thing as a stupid question. Just something you haven't either heard of or learned yet...
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