Iain Rauch wrote:
I'm looking into getting another drive and have noticed I've run out of
SATA ports (and EIDE, as it happens).
So, I'm looking at a PCI card for SATA and went back to look at that
Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 card - I've had my eye on it for a few years, or
perhaps it was a previous version of the same thing, I'm not sure.
Anyway, I'm worried that it isn't the correct bus type for my computer.
I'm confused by the PCI-X and PCIe types, and I don't have access to my
computer over Christmas.
My motherboard is some consumer level MSI board, and I just added an
nVidia graphics card on the same bus (it used one of the two longer slots).
Could someone with better knowledge of such things hazzard a guess?
I'm sure you will have PCI on your board, but it's unlikely that you have
PCI-X. You can use the PCI-X card in a PCI slot, but the speed will be
reduced.
If you have PCIe slots (which is likely if the board is less than a couple
of years old), you are better to use them as they are faster than PCI/PCI-X.
OK, so it sounds like my suspicions were correct - I have PCI/PCIe.
You say I would be better to use PCIe, but the card is PCI-X. Can I use
PCI-X in a PCIe slot?
Max.
Iain
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