Best SATA Card to add drives to home server ?

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tylerrr

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Hey there. Looking to upgrade my linux home server that has maxed out the available sata connections on my motherboard - and was hoping for advice on a good SATA card to add a few ports to the machine. It needs to be full speed (so full PCI I assume instead of pci-e) and add at least 4 sata II-III ports. There is a few cheap ones out there (25-50$) but they
utilizes the Sil3114 chipset infamous for RANDOM DATA CORRUPTION. It's a hardware problem and was never fixed in driver updates.
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so I was wary of picking those up. Any suggestions for a good raid card that I could run in JBOD ? Or a pure SATA controller that would let me add 4-6x SATA II-III drives into the mix ? My budget is 100-200USD. Thank you.
 
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There are other sata controller chips, you are not locked to the SII.

For plain HDD, sataII is good enough and there are tons of choices and cheap. I really have no favorite. SataIII with real 6GB speed, with at least 2 PCIe lanes are expensive, comparatively.

I think you are confusing terms. JBOD often refers to an external multi-bay drive enclosure that you attach with a single cable but your controller is able to talk to the multiple individual drives. Doesn't sound like is what you are talking about it here.

If you have individual drives, why even bring in raid? although many cards do say they got raid on-board, I have no idea if they are any good at their raid. I don't use raid myself.
 
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You're correct, I was mixed up about JBOD. From what I've been reading it sounds like a SAS host bus adapter will be the best choice for me. I found one for around $200 that will give 8 SATA ports at 12GB/sec. I think that might be overkill, but all the SAS host bust adapters were around the same price. I'm unsure if the 12GB/sec is spread over all 8 drives or if it will give each one a potential of 12GB/sec. Various people will be potentially be copying/reading files from different drives at the same time.
 
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