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Howdy, |
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As some know, my inventory on hard drives is growing. I'm at about a |
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dozen between main rig and backups. Most are 14TB or above. I was |
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pestering ebay the other day and noticed there is a PCIe card that adds |
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ports that is different. I had a 4 port one but just replaced it with a |
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10 port. It is a PCIe x1 card. It has the narrow connector. While |
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looking around tho, I found a few cards that are PCIe x4. It has a |
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wider connector. According to my google searches, PCIe x4 is faster |
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than PCIe x1. It's why some cards are PCIe x8 or x16. I think video |
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cards are usually x16. My question is, given the PCIe x4 card costs |
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more, is it that much faster than a PCIe x1? I'm not driving the drives |
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to the max or anything during normal use but when I use pvmove, it does |
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pretty much max them out. I try to connect drives in a way that data |
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moving from place to place takes the best path but sometimes the future |
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surprises me. |
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Is it better to have PCIe x4 instead? |
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Thanks for the info. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. My drive list according to my notes. 2 16TBs, 3 14TBs, 1 10TB |
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and 2 8TBs drive. I may have a couple smaller ones laying around |
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somewhere. I'm pretty sure there is a 6TB lurking about somewhere. |