On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:48 PM, <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:32:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > >> There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two >> SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only >> one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8. > > How easy is it to connect to cables in one of the doubles?
Um, pretty easy? Same as how difficult it might be to plug one into your motherboard. > > My tower is pretty full, but some of that is 3 SCSI drives, and I may > at some point change all three to a single SSD drive and put in two > more 4T drives. Sure. > >> The reason I'm only using 3? This system doesn't have PCI-X, only PCIe >> and PCI. So I want as much as reasonable plugged into the mainboard's >> SATA ports. > > Why not use the PCIe slots for SATA to get more speed? I suppose you > could just want bulk where speed is not essential, or they could be full.... I didn't have non-GPU PCIe slots when I bought the cards, and I don't have a PCIe SATA controller. When I bought the cards, I did happen to have a prescott-based dual-xeon system with a couple PCI-X slots I wanted to take advantage of. It only took a couple days' having that machine powered up before I realized I didn't need that powerful of an electric space heater in my apartment... The one thing I'd really like to change over what I've got...I'd like to have the correct-length SATA cables, rather than having plenty of SATA cables all of worst-case length. Well, the other thing I'd like to change is use hot-swap bays instead of the semi-fixed bays I've got. Then I wouldn't need to move cables around if I need to remove drives. (That got to be a problem earlier this week.) But that's not the fault of the controller. -- :wq
