Controller card for WHS

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I need to get a controller card for my upcoming whs build because i'll need additional sata ports. Any recommendations? I'm looking for cheap and reliable. Doesn't need to do raid well or anything since its not doing anything besides connecting the drives so WHS can do its thing.

EDIT: Should probably say, I'm aiming at an (eventual) pool of 16-20 drives.
 
+1 for the super micro card
i have a highpoint 2320 that i got on the BST forum for $45.... people are selling controller cards
 
its pci-x, which is different than pci-e, its and older tech, and more closely linked with pci, so you can use a pci-x card in a normal pci slot.

edit: the only difference when running it a pci slot is you won't get 100% of the card's bandwidth.
 
No, you don't need a server board.

BTW, you've shown a socket 939 motherboard and a socket AM2 cpu there.
 
Hah, sorry, I had 2 boards open on newegg and copied the wrong one. I'll fix the link :)

Also, what would I be looking at for max read/write if I ran it on pci instead of pci-x?
 
Sat2-mv8 is a 64bit 133mhz card that rounds out to a theoretical 1GB/s when used in a 64bit 133mhz PCI-X slot.

When run in a PCI 32bit/33mhz your theoretical max is = 133.33MB/s

A major difference but still faster then single drive speed. I run one in a PCI slot and have noticed no speed transfer issue.
 
nitrobass24 said:
Sat2-mv8 is a 64bit 133mhz card that rounds out to a theoretical 1GB/s when used in a 64bit 133mhz PCI-X slot.

When run in a PCI 32bit/33mhz your theoretical max is = 133.33MB/s

A major difference but still faster then single drive speed. I run one in a PCI slot and have noticed no speed transfer issue.
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Not only faster than most consumer drives, but way faster than gigabit performance.
 
Ockie said:
Not only faster than most consumer drives, but way faster than gigabit performance.
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This is the most important part. The best transfer speed I've gotten to or from my WHS is around 65MB/s.
 
Ockie said:
Not only faster than most consumer drives, but way faster than gigabit performance.
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What exactly are you saying here? I take this to mean that even though the performance is reduced (running in PCI) that its still plenty fast to saturate a gigabit network? If thats the case I may grab this board for my future WHS build too.

Thanks for clarification
 
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