Hey you guys,
first off, I'd like to tell all of you that I love you guys and this forum for helping out everyone in need.
So here's the thing. I have a GIGABYTE GA-H67A-UD3H-B3 motherboard. it's got 2x PCI-Express 2.0 x16 Slots (one running at x4, Support for ATI CrossFireX technology); 2x PCI-Express 2.0 x1 Slots; 3x PCI Slots.
It only has 5 onboard SATA ports. I need to connect up to 12 SATA hard drives to this computer. So far 5 down, 7 to go. All of them standard 2 TB Seagate hard drives, 5900 RPM.
My question is this: What kind of SATA controller card would be best for my motherboard so that I can connect more hard drives (in non raid array) to my computer. I'm not using the PCIex16 slots cuz the motherboard has onboard graphics. I haven't used any of the slots of anything. This computer is basically just a server computer hooked up to a TV via HDMI for media viewing.
Someone help pls? I'm getting really confused reading between PCIe x 4, PCI, PCIe x 1, etc etc etc.... I'm worried about bottlenecking the PCI slots and getting really really slow transfer/read speeds from the hard drives that would be connected to the controller cards. So would it be better to get two controller cards on PCIex1?
I mean in a nutshell, I just need... controller cards that will make the hard drives connected to it seem as if it were connected to the mainboard.
Thanks a bunch you guys!
first off, I'd like to tell all of you that I love you guys and this forum for helping out everyone in need.
So here's the thing. I have a GIGABYTE GA-H67A-UD3H-B3 motherboard. it's got 2x PCI-Express 2.0 x16 Slots (one running at x4, Support for ATI CrossFireX technology); 2x PCI-Express 2.0 x1 Slots; 3x PCI Slots.
It only has 5 onboard SATA ports. I need to connect up to 12 SATA hard drives to this computer. So far 5 down, 7 to go. All of them standard 2 TB Seagate hard drives, 5900 RPM.
My question is this: What kind of SATA controller card would be best for my motherboard so that I can connect more hard drives (in non raid array) to my computer. I'm not using the PCIex16 slots cuz the motherboard has onboard graphics. I haven't used any of the slots of anything. This computer is basically just a server computer hooked up to a TV via HDMI for media viewing.
Someone help pls? I'm getting really confused reading between PCIe x 4, PCI, PCIe x 1, etc etc etc.... I'm worried about bottlenecking the PCI slots and getting really really slow transfer/read speeds from the hard drives that would be connected to the controller cards. So would it be better to get two controller cards on PCIex1?
I mean in a nutshell, I just need... controller cards that will make the hard drives connected to it seem as if it were connected to the mainboard.
Thanks a bunch you guys!