Re: PCIe SATA controllers

2018-08-09 Thread Roger Heflin
For JBOD disks the LSI or the build-in Intel or AMD ports seem to be equally as fast since they are all connected to the CPU with enough PCI-e lanes, and for most usage cases it is plenty fast enough. I have had bad luck with at least 2 different marvell chipsets, so won't touch those. One of t

Re: PCIe SATA controllers

2018-08-09 Thread Alex
Hi, > The curiosity is killing me! What do you need > 6+ SATA ports for? I have a 60GB SSD that I use for root, along with a 240GB I use for a Windows VM. The others are 4TB disks I use for my photography and Videos/torrents. The sixth is the BR-DVD I needed two more 4TB to mirror together for

Re: PCIe SATA controllers

2018-08-08 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 08/08/2018 02:37 PM, Alex wrote: Asus Z370-A It has an M.2 NVMe slot (which uses four lanes of PCIe) ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: PCIe SATA controllers

2018-08-08 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 08/08/2018 02:37 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I've just purchased an Asus Z370-A motherboard to replace my older desktop board. It includes 6 SATA6 ports but I need a few more. Do you have any recommendations? All the regular controllers I've found are PCIe v2.0 and most are x1. Is that even fast en

Re: PCIe SATA controllers

2018-08-08 Thread Roger Heflin
Stay away from the <$50 for 2-4 ports, most of them are pretty bad. One of the cheaper old LSI ones. I have one that was bought used and flashed into a pure sata controller. Mine is a: SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] and/or The LSI 9211-8i 6Gb/s SATA +SAS HBA, It is around $80 and

Re: PCIe SATA controllers

2018-08-08 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 05:37:17PM -0400, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I've just purchased an Asus Z370-A motherboard to replace my older > desktop board. It includes 6 SATA6 ports but I need a few more. > > Do you have any recommendations? > > All the regular controllers I've found are PCIe v2.0 and m

PCIe SATA controllers

2018-08-08 Thread Alex
Hi, I've just purchased an Asus Z370-A motherboard to replace my older desktop board. It includes 6 SATA6 ports but I need a few more. Do you have any recommendations? All the regular controllers I've found are PCIe v2.0 and most are x1. Is that even fast enough for 6mbs? This one looks reasona