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Question about SATA Cards

Satyrist

Satyrist

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My question is,

Knowing that if you put two drives onto one IDE channel, performance will suffer. (it will generally be only as fast as the slowest drive on that channel, and only one drive can be active at once)

I was looking at getting a SATA Pci card for use in a file server; I was looking at getting one with 4 ports, is SATA limited in the same fashion as IDE is as far as maximum drives/channel? (And without sacrificing performance)

I was looking at saving one extra card slot on the board itself--It's got an older 440 BX chipset.
 
Each SATA port is on it's own channel so it doesn't have the same limit as 2 ATA drives on a channel, so the PCI bus will be the only real limiter.
 
so, 4 ports=4 drives and no problems.

I'm not looking to put these together as a RAID system, just consolidate drives onto one card.

Thanks
 
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