I'm using the Stardom SC-SATA-II-X PCI-X card with very good results. It has 3+1 ports, 3 internal and one external. I bought also a Stardom SOHOTANK, a SATA external box with 5 disks slots and plugged 3 disks of 750GB each, in Linux RAID5, so I have 1.5 TB expandable to 3TB at a very low price. I had to recompile the driver to add the multiport support, thanks to Tejun's help in this list. The SOHOTANK is connected with a single cable to the external SATA port. I've been testing it for a week now and I'm quite satisfied. I'm running this on a couple of HP DL385 servers, with dual opteron 285 dual core and 7GB RAM. The server are used for calculations, not too much I/O. Calculations are normally done in the local disk, and valuable results are copied to the external RAID. If one of the computers is down, the RAID can be plugged to the other one. Carlos On 10/28/06, Andrew Lyon <andrew.lyon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody recommend a Pci Express Sil 3124 card? > http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html#sii3124 shows that this is the > best supported chip, I am looking for a card with 4 or more ports, any > suggestions? > > Thanks > Andy > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
Interesting, I'd not considered a card with external sata connector, I'd completely forgotten about multiport. Thanks for the info andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
