Sata controller cards?

[shabby]

Anyone have any recommendations for a pcie sata 4-port controller card? I bought a $20 one recently and regret it dearly, copying to a hard drive connected to it resulted in freezes and even some funny noises coming from the hard drive, plugging it into my mobo fixed everything.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I second this question. Would like to use it with UnRAID.

 

[Soulkeeper]

Anyone have any recommendations for a pcie sata 4-port controller card? I bought a $20 one recently and regret it dearly, copying to a hard drive connected to it resulted in freezes and even some funny noises coming from the hard drive, plugging it into my mobo fixed everything.

Which card did you buy that you regret ?

 

[tweakboy]

Anyone have any recommendations for a pcie sata 4-port controller card? I bought a $20 one recently and regret it dearly, copying to a hard drive connected to it resulted in freezes and even some funny noises coming from the hard drive, plugging it into my mobo fixed everything.

Don't do it I have experience. Their cheap and your limited to 4x

It will not be near as fast and stable as onboard SATA ...

Just wait until you get a new motherboard. Its a waiste of money youll see.

 

[shabby]

Which card did you buy that you regret ?

This one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124029

Don't do it I have experience. Their cheap and your limited to 4x
It will not be near as fast and stable as onboard SATA ...
Just wait until you get a new motherboard. Its a waiste of money youll see.

I don't care about speed, im simply running out of space and need to add more hd's so this is the only option.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i'm not surprised you have a problem with that multi chip card

best to keep it simple, get a card with a single chip from someone like marvell, asmedia, or silicon image.

I just saw this the other day
cheap sil image cards + port mults

 

[tweakboy]

Nice fine Soulkeeper but ya these cards are all junk IMO and my experience.

Im mean its a pure headache. your better off buying a mobo with 8 sata or something or does that even exist

 

[shabby]

i'm not surprised you have a problem with that multi chip card

best to keep it simple, get a card with a single chip from someone like marvell, asmedia, or silicon image.

I just saw this the other day
cheap sil image cards + port mults

What about one of these, one has a silicon image chip and the other a marvel.
http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=537&currentPage=0
http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1160&currentPage=0

Im mean its a pure headache. your better off buying a mobo with 8 sata or something or does that even exist

I already have 8 ports on my mobo, think i've seen one of the asrock boards with 12 ports, now that would be ideal.

 

[jochenthomas]

what kind of mobo do you have with 8 sata3 onboard?
Looking for myself for a solution with at least 3 onboard sata3, but not a marvell etc. (as they are often regarded as bad performing)...

 

[shabby]

what kind of mobo do you have with 8 sata3 onboard

Never said it had 8 sata3 ports, just 8 ports total, 2 are intel sata3 and 2 are marvell sata3 and its on an asus p8p67 pro.

 

[jochenthomas]

;-) o.k.

 

[Auric]

The problem was the JMicron chip. VIA are also to be avoided. Silicon Image are generally okay. If do not mind the jump from $50ish to $100ish and especially for serverish reliabilty and compatibility (ZFS, unRAID, disPARITY, SnapRAID, and so on) then the Marvell based Supermicro card is commonly recommended (despite Marvell's reputation for flaky mainboard implementations), as well as LSI based cards -usually OEM versions parted out from servers.

Good source of info:
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?board=37.0

 

[truckerCLOCK]

Look on Ebay for a IBM ServeRAID M1015, or a LSI 9240-8i. They are 8 port Sata cards with 3tb support.

 

[Emulex]

M5014 is $130 without bracket and they come with bbu. 256mb cache version of 9260-8i

 

[VirtualLarry]

1)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124027

?

2)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124032

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3) Marvell
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124050

?

 

[jochenthomas]

typically additional cards bring performance issues (hopefully they are PCI Express 3.0 or similar), therefore the best idea would be to have onboard solutions. Or is this a wrong thinking?

 

[Emulex]

typically software raid blows monkey. an LSI 9260-8i for $130 off ebay is freaking insane fantastic (IBM M5014). It will rock your socks, and for that price get two for redundancy

those cards sold for $600 several months back (9260-8i with bbu)

 

[Auric]

1)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124027

?

2)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124032

?

3) Marvell
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816124050

?

SiI, JM, Marvell. The latter two should be ignored. Have you learned nothing?! D:

Oh, let's be sure to mention that Nvidia controllers are garbage while we're at it.

Again, the SiI may be useful but if considering unRAID then it's really necessary to confirm compatibility and reliability. However, since that implies a certain investment in time and cost, trying to save $50 on the heart of the system is prolly folly.