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On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM, <felix@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 06:05:30PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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>> I have a couple "MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller" devices I |
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>> picked up from Newegg a couple years back. They work beautifully. |
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>> They were marked as RAID cards, but it's software raid, and I only |
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>> wanted them as AHCI SATA controllers anyhow. As it happens, they work |
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>> in PCI slots as well as PCI-X slots. |
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> Hmmm ... that's one I bookmarked, but I am curious how they claim 8 |
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> port when it only has three connectors? Newegg's pictures aren't |
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> clear enough for me to figure that out. Is it two on the back and |
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> three doublt-ports on the front? How well do they work? I suppose |
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> must be good enough to recommend it :-) Do you actually have 8 drives |
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> connected to one? |
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There are 8 ports, but I'm only currently using three. Here's a pic: |
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/28208534@N07/7428312264/ |
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(The big passive heat sink is on the NVidia GeForce 210 in the system. |
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Neither component has had heat issues in this configuration) |
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There are three modules on one side of the PCB. Each module has two |
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SATA ports. There are two modules on the flip side that each have only |
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one SATA port. So, that's 3x2+2, or 8. |
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The reason I'm only using 3? This system doesn't have PCI-X, only PCIe |
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and PCI. So I want as much as reasonable plugged into the mainboard's |
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SATA ports. |
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:wq |
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