On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 07:15:32AM -0700, Harry McGregor wrote:
> On 6/22/10 7:05 AM, Tim Lider wrote:
> > Hello Chris,
> >
> > I am not able to find much:
> >
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124032
> > this is 5 internal and 1 external for $75.00
> >
> This one might worj
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132018
> > this is 4 internal and 2 external for $90.00
> >
> >
> This one is really only a 4 port card, notice all of the jumpers...
> It's to switch up to two ports to external.
>
> Supermicro has an 8 port card that you may be able to put one port as
> e-Sata (works on linux with the PCI-X version at least).
>
> I have two of the PCI-X cards, and love them. The PCI-E uses a quad
> sata port, so you have to get fan out cables.
I have not found a worthwhile PCI-E to Sata card yet. Most of them seem to use
garbage buggy
chipsets. If you are doing any type of software raid, I recommend the Dell
SAS6/iR with
fanout cables. If you want to go external, the above mentioned will work. I'm
not sure
if the SAS6/iR supports port multipliers.
--
Bryan G. Seitz
