> Has abybody used a card like that for this or can anyone sugest a better > (cheap) solution in the USD 200 region? I did a very similar thing with 3x SIIG SC-SAE012-S1 2-port PCIe SATA controllers. Running just great right now. I had to up the 200 MB/sec reconstruction bandwidth limit because I was bumping into it and throttling while setting up the array. They're US$50 each, which is the same as $200 for 8 ports but you can buy less if you want. And I can definitely suck more than 250 MB/sec off of 4 drives, so only 2 ports per PCIe x1 actually makes sense. These are actually Silicon Image Si3132 controller chips, which have all the modern features and vendor support to the libata developers. Grab the development "sata_sil24" driver to make it work the best; the regular sata_sil driver will work, but you need a very recent kernel or a one-line patch to recognize the PCI ID (1095:3132). (Not to mention, Silicon Image make th only shipping SATA port multiplier today, do you know port multiplier support is possible eventually.) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
