Will this over saturate the PCI bus?

[superHARD]

I have a Quad core Intel Q6600 so I have enough processing power, but will:

2 analog pci tuner cards
1 pci 64bit Raid 5 card with a 10TB array on it (that is plugged into a 32bit PCI slot)
1 USB dual analog TV tuner

I can't find a 1x PCI express 6 port raid card...and my board does not have a 4x pci express

So will recording 3 shows at once, and moving huge files to the raid array be possible? Or will it make me want to pull the little hair I have left, out?

MOD EDIT: Crossposted - Zap

 

[Blain]

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[Lonyo]

IIRC, PCI is limited to 133MB/s total over all PCI slots, so you will be severely crippling your RAID array speed wise.

If you have two PCIe x16 slots, and one is free (e.g. graphics card in one, nothing in the other), you could get an x4 PCIe RAID card and use the other PCIe x16 slot (even if it's only electrically x1 or x4) for a RAID card.

What motherboard do you have/what slots does it have?

 

[superHARD]

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You just like to thread crap don't you?

This is the General hardware thread. I can post anything hardware related...so please read the rules about thread crapping and don't post in my threads anymore.

 

[superHARD]

IIRC, PCI is limited to 133MB/s total over all PCI slots, so you will be severely crippling your RAID array speed wise.

If you have two PCIe x16 slots, and one is free (e.g. graphics card in one, nothing in the other), you could get an x4 PCIe RAID card and use the other PCIe x16 slot (even if it's only electrically x1 or x4) for a RAID card.

What motherboard do you have/what slots does it have?

Thank you very much for your helpful post.

It is a DP35DP Intel mobo, so it has 1 16x pci express and 3 normal pci, and 2 1x pci express.

So you're thinking the pci 32bit raid card isn't a good idea for a setup like this?

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Thank you very much for your helpful post.

It is a DP35DP Intel mobo, so it has 1 16x pci express and 3 normal pci, and 2 1x pci express.

So you're thinking the pci 32bit raid card isn't a good idea for a setup like this?

Yeah, you'd probably see a performance hit if you kept the RAID card on PCI. If you can't upgrade the board, you could potentially get new tuners that are PCI-E and reserve the majority of the PCI bus for the RAID card (though note that some integrated components might still use the PCI bus), but still, that is more of a band-aid and you'd ideally want the RAID controller to be on the PCI-E bus.

 

[superHARD]

I found out that if you clip the back off the 1x express slot, you can fit and make work a 4x or 8x, or even a 16x raid card...so I think that's what I'm going to do wish me luck