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I don't like adding "complexity," but sometimes you take a chance. And the complexity I'm contemplating had been status-quo before -- more or less.
My WHS-2011 box has a mobo with six SATA ports. I've used five of those -- only because I had an IDE DVD-burner I hooked up to the sole IDE-controller port (it's an LGA-775 mobo).
I may want one or more HDDs, and I might want to replace the IDE optical drive with SATA DVD-burner and then just disable the onboard IDE controller. Or -- I might even want to replace the IDE burner with an older StarTech IDE Hot-swap bay (for some 500 GB drives I have).
There are still three vacant PCI-E slots -- two of which would handle an x4 or x8 SATA expansion card.
Am I going to have trouble implementing S3 sleep and wake after I add such a controller card? Or -- which controller card would be recommended to avoid such a problem?
I found this HighPoint controller interesting, because of the price. I will no longer dump $300 or more into RAID controller cards unless I have sufficient reason:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816115094
My WHS-2011 box has a mobo with six SATA ports. I've used five of those -- only because I had an IDE DVD-burner I hooked up to the sole IDE-controller port (it's an LGA-775 mobo).
I may want one or more HDDs, and I might want to replace the IDE optical drive with SATA DVD-burner and then just disable the onboard IDE controller. Or -- I might even want to replace the IDE burner with an older StarTech IDE Hot-swap bay (for some 500 GB drives I have).
There are still three vacant PCI-E slots -- two of which would handle an x4 or x8 SATA expansion card.
Am I going to have trouble implementing S3 sleep and wake after I add such a controller card? Or -- which controller card would be recommended to avoid such a problem?
I found this HighPoint controller interesting, because of the price. I will no longer dump $300 or more into RAID controller cards unless I have sufficient reason:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816115094
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