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2012-01-07, 02:59
(This post was last modified: 2012-01-07, 03:02 by ghart999.)
Eskro - when choosing a SATA II to PCI card for adding more drives, does it have a performance hit to use a PCI card vs. PCIe?
Or do you know of a SATAIIx4 PCIe card for a decent price? Monoprice does not seem to have one and the cheapest I can find at Newegg is $40.
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well, for old school PCI slots,
its not really recommended to hook up more then 2 HDD's
even tho you may have more then 1 PCI slot...
because those PCI slot share their bandwidth between them so,
this will greatly influence overall speed if you use more then 2 HDD's.
dont know about 4xSATAII PCIeX1 card, never used them.
with unRAID, users go for 2xSATAII PCIeX1 cards...
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before these parts arrive one thing i'm confused about is where the breakout cables come in to play? would i be using that for the first 6 drives or for the last 8?
i'm assuming the first 6 hdds (original setup without any expansion cards) would use the 6 sata ports on the board, am i wrong?
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as said in first post,
from the start,
you should wire everything in the case....
but to answer your question,
the the breakout cables are for the last 8 HDD's..
finally, yes,
the first 6 hdds (original setup without any expansion cards)
would use the 6 sata ports on the board..
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Thank you eskro I will name this server in memory of you !!
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2012-01-12, 09:49
(This post was last modified: 2012-01-12, 10:07 by Drawde.)
i've got the unraid server up and running thanks to you guys' help. I'm still waiting for the SATA cables to arrive but I couldn't wait, lol.. I only had 2 handy so right now I just have 2+2TB in there. I know I should probably wait until i get the rest of the parts, but when I was going through the setup I noticed that SATA ports 5 and 6 on the mb aren't working. The unraid server wasn't seeing my HDDs so I had to move them to 1 and 2. is this normal? I'm not 100% positive but I believe I was able to see them in the bios, I don't remember.
root@Tower:~# dmesg | grep SATA | grep link
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
EDIT: NVM figured it out.. changed bios settings from IDE to AHCI.. wouldn't let me delete this
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hi Drawde, i believe at this point that u should ask on unRAID official forum...
those guys are real gurus!!
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Just curious on this build- is it one you've done or is it theoretical? I'm considering something similar based on a g620 build but I'm nervous about all the required cabling.