On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:16 PM tito via Dng <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 17:10:51 -0500 > o1bigtenor via Dng <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Greetings > > > > Bought a mobo that said that there was room for 8 SATA ports and 2 M2 > > drives. > > > > It took looking in the fine print to find that when using M2 drives > > that one loses an > > SATA port for each M2 drive. > > > > So in a system with 2 M2s and a pair of SSDs for the operating system > > I've only got space left for 4 SATA drives - - - - and I have 5 that > > are to be placed in the case after everything is set up. > > > > The case has room for some over 20 more drives than I'm starting with > > so space is NOT an issue. > > > > Have found some PCIe 3.0 cards with 16 SATA port count. > > > > Do I need any kind of special driver to use this many SATA ports? > > What kind of SATA cards (brand, model, chip)? > >
SATA PCIe Adapter 16 Port SATA III to PCI Express 3.0 X1 Controller Expansion Card ASM1064 JBM575 Chip from newegg .ca at under $140 w/o taxes. There is only some $20 difference or so from some of the 8 port cards to this one. There are drivers mentioned for Windows but I can't find anything when I'm searching for linux + PCIe + card + SATA controller + drivers + ASM 1064 so thought I would tap the community to find answer(s). TIA _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
