Hi, On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 3:11 PM Matt Garman <matthew.garman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:33 PM Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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? > > Are you using "traditional" spinning platter-style drives, or SSDs? > And what is the role of this server/storage system? I have eight total disks in the system, including two ~250GB SSDs. The others are 2TB and 4TB. I don't plan on using RAID on any of them, but may in the future. This is really just desktop stuff, but who likes to wait? :-) Do you believe the 9220 is better than the onboard Intel? It looks like I can get one from China on ebay for $40 if I'm willing to wait a month: https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-ServeRaid-M1015-46M0861-LSI-SAS-9220-8i-SAS-SATA-PCI-E-RAID-Controller/152957368610 Thanks again, Alex
