Re: PCI-X/PCIe RAID controller.

[Drew <drew.kay@xxxxxxxxx>]

> The key is the backplane, not the drives. You should be able to get u320
> speeds if you have enough u160 drives.

Does five drives count?

>> I was just hoping a slightly newer card might be available that'd give
>> me a speed boost for cheap. :-)
>
> Again, like John posted, it depends on whether your backplane(s) can
> feed the u320 card and whether its bus can take the bandwidth.

AFAIK, the back plane is rated at U320 speeds. The unit is a
Supermicro CSE-M35S (SCA) which is listed as a U320 rated unit.


-- 
Drew

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