I'm increasing storage on a system and have run out of SATA ports. Can anyone recommend a 8 port SATA card (No RAID) which supports up to 2TB hard drives. Thank you.
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2why wouldn't you want a RAID controller? If are running software raid and are going to put a card in, you might as well put in a hardware RAID card.– ZypherMar 18, 2011 at 23:27
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Would this be ESATA? or is this an internal SATA (HDD mounted inside the PC case)?– CampoMar 19, 2011 at 0:24
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@Zypher, he might be looking to build a cheap ZFS pool, in which case the extra expense of a RAID controller would be wasted. However, the best performance usually comes from good SAS HBAs, the type that typically integrate RAID.– Chris SMar 19, 2011 at 1:55
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1Closing as off-topic, as we don't do shopping recommendations.– Mark HendersonMar 22, 2011 at 1:24
4 Answers
For home use I use IBM BR10i cards
each has 2 sff multiports (8 sas devices per card (4 per port))
3 cards in the file server for 24 disks in the storage array
plus 2 system disks off the on board controllers
IIRC they have an lsi chipset
Port multipliers might be what you're searching for: serialata.org. And the following link is no ad - just old school tech FYI: Backblaze
This may not be exactly what you need but here is the list from a research I did for my recent project:
- LSI SAS 9211-8i
- LSI SAS 9210-8i
- LSI SAS 3081E-R
- LSI SAS 3080X-R
- Adaptec 2805
They all have an entry level RAID controller but is is an inexpensive kind. See if it helps.