Hello!
I'm looking for a way to add SATA ports to my DIY home server. I always knew about PCI Raid controllers, but I don't need Hardware RAID (and those cards are expensive), what I need is a PCI-E card that would give me as much simple non-raid SATA ports as possible, for a cheap price (compared to RAID controllers at least).
I googled that there are some SAS cards, that give up to 16 sata connections...
So, questions are:
1. What SAS\SATA controllers could you recommend? Preferably something widely-spread and common, I live in Russia and it may be harder to find some controllers here. There's always ebay, but I'd prefer to buy something locally, IF possible.
2. Is it true that to connect SATA drives I only need an appropriate SAS to SATA cable? I saw 1 SAS to 4 SATA cables, but I guess there will be loss in speed, at least depending on which SAS version is used?
I'm building a DIY home-server\NAS, and I have a lot of relatively small HDDs lying around, which I don't want to go to waste, and put them to use in HDD Pool (MHDDFS for example) storage.
I plan to put 2-4 disks into RAID 1 (motherboard's raid controller is more than enough for that), and the rest N-number of disks into MHDDFS.
For that I'd need A LOT of SATA ports, and motherboard I'm using only has 6 slots available, but it has some free PCI slots.
Thanks!
P.S.: By PCI I mean PCI-E of course, or any other fast enough PCI-like interface available in this motherboard: Gigabyte p67a-ud7
http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-P67A-UD7-rev-10#sp
I'm looking for a way to add SATA ports to my DIY home server. I always knew about PCI Raid controllers, but I don't need Hardware RAID (and those cards are expensive), what I need is a PCI-E card that would give me as much simple non-raid SATA ports as possible, for a cheap price (compared to RAID controllers at least).
I googled that there are some SAS cards, that give up to 16 sata connections...
So, questions are:
1. What SAS\SATA controllers could you recommend? Preferably something widely-spread and common, I live in Russia and it may be harder to find some controllers here. There's always ebay, but I'd prefer to buy something locally, IF possible.
2. Is it true that to connect SATA drives I only need an appropriate SAS to SATA cable? I saw 1 SAS to 4 SATA cables, but I guess there will be loss in speed, at least depending on which SAS version is used?
I'm building a DIY home-server\NAS, and I have a lot of relatively small HDDs lying around, which I don't want to go to waste, and put them to use in HDD Pool (MHDDFS for example) storage.
I plan to put 2-4 disks into RAID 1 (motherboard's raid controller is more than enough for that), and the rest N-number of disks into MHDDFS.
For that I'd need A LOT of SATA ports, and motherboard I'm using only has 6 slots available, but it has some free PCI slots.
Thanks!
P.S.: By PCI I mean PCI-E of course, or any other fast enough PCI-like interface available in this motherboard: Gigabyte p67a-ud7
http://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-P67A-UD7-rev-10#sp
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