On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:11 PM, John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please could someone suggest a cheap PCI-E SATA card with 4 internal ports? > > I currently have 6 motherboard SATA ports and a 5-drive hot-swap chassis, I > am thinking of adding a second 5-drive hot-swap chassis to my case and would > need another 4 SATA ports to drive it. > > Other requirements: known to work with RHEL/CentOS 5 kernels, even if it > means installing a driver with DKMS or whatever. > > Doesn't have to be PCI-E x1 because I've a spare x8 (logical)/x16 (physical) > slot, but I don't know if anything cheap's going to be anything other than > PCI-E x1. v2.0 (5GT/s) would be nice though. > > Looking through my usual suppliers' listings, there are occasional cheap > cards with one or several e-SATA ports, or considerably more expensive cards > claiming to have RAID, but I don't want to spend more on a 4-port SATA card > than I would on a motherboard. > > Happy new year all! > > Cheers, > > John. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at Âhttp://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > If you're OK with SATA II then I found a couple at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132017&Tpk=SiliconImage%204-port http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102065&cm_re=4-port_SATA_III-_-16-102-065-_-Product Hope this helps, Mark -- 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
