Carpet3 Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 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? Quote Link to comment
Stokkes Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 PCI-express slot and it allows for 8 drives. Quote Link to comment
Carpet3 Posted January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted January 13, 2011 In hindsight, it was a stupid question. Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment
Stokkes Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 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 Quote Link to comment
PhilH Posted January 17, 2011 Share Posted January 17, 2011 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... Quote Link to comment
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