Hi, I've just purchased an Asus Z370-A motherboard to replace my older desktop board. It includes 6 SATA6 ports but I need a few more. Do you have any recommendations? All the regular controllers I've found are PCIe v2.0 and most are x1. Is that even fast enough for 6mbs? Is the 3.0 standard just not widely adopted yet? This one looks reasonable. Any reason to think it wouldn't work with Linux? It's also v2.0 https://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-8-port-Controller-SI-PEX40071/dp/B00ESFEI2E/ I've always used md instead of hardware RAID, but is there any advantage to the controllers with some amount of onboard cache? I would then need the breakout cables to SATA. https://www.amazon.com/LSI-Logic-SAS9260-8I-8PORT-512MB/dp/B002IT4YG2/ I currently have this Intel SATA controller. Are the ones I've listed above faster/better than this onboard? 00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 200 Series PCH SATA controller [AHCI mode] (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Anyone remember the Hardware-Compatibility-HOWTO? :-) Thanks for any ideas. -- 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
