This card appears to have gone up on Supermicro's site recently as the PDF manual creation date is 2/2/09. I would've expected some chatter about it somewhere by now. A google search of the model only brings up 8 results. One of them is a dutch shop and they seem to be listing it for roughly $125. I could be very wrong about that price though. Is this the card that Unraid, WHS, and software raid community have been waiting years for?
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SASLP-MV8.cfm
Overview
The AOC-SASLP-MV8 add-on card is a highly efficient, highly compatible and
easy-to-use SAS/SATA Controller that allows the user to connect to up to eight drives
using Marvell's 88SE6480 Serial ATA/SAS Host Controller and a PCI-E x4 interface with
high performance features.
Product Features
The AOC-SASLP-MV8 add-on card offers the following features:
Low profile Form Factor (w/ the PCB size of 4.75" H x 2.5" W)
Marvell's 88SE6480 Serial ATA Host Controller supports 8 SAS/SATA ports
Two mini SAS connectors can connect to 8 internal SAS/SATA drives with iPass
cables
PCI-E x4
Flash BIOS Interface
Presence LED Indicator and Activity Indicator for each connected drive
JBOD (Simple Volume) support
Boots from a single drive.
I'm already dreaming of one of these in an upcoming lower power mini-itx chipset. Or maybe two in a micro-atx system...
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SASLP-MV8.cfm
Overview
The AOC-SASLP-MV8 add-on card is a highly efficient, highly compatible and
easy-to-use SAS/SATA Controller that allows the user to connect to up to eight drives
using Marvell's 88SE6480 Serial ATA/SAS Host Controller and a PCI-E x4 interface with
high performance features.
Product Features
The AOC-SASLP-MV8 add-on card offers the following features:
Low profile Form Factor (w/ the PCB size of 4.75" H x 2.5" W)
Marvell's 88SE6480 Serial ATA Host Controller supports 8 SAS/SATA ports
Two mini SAS connectors can connect to 8 internal SAS/SATA drives with iPass
cables
PCI-E x4
Flash BIOS Interface
Presence LED Indicator and Activity Indicator for each connected drive
JBOD (Simple Volume) support
Boots from a single drive.
I'm already dreaming of one of these in an upcoming lower power mini-itx chipset. Or maybe two in a micro-atx system...