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

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

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

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

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

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