gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Does anyone have experience with this controller card? > > https://www.newegg.com/p/14G-04YB-00003?Item=9SIB2XHHUE3880 > > Specifically, whats my chances of moving an existing software raid10's 4 > Samsung 1T's to it, > and then attaching 4 more 2T drives to it too, to create a separate 4T > raid-10 for amanda? > > Without any data loss if possible?
I don't have any experience with this one. I don't know what SATA chipset it is using, but there aren't many that the kernel doesn't already support. That said, it is a straight SATA3 board, not a RAID board, so there will be no difficulty in moving mdadm, btrfs or zfs RAIDs over to it. I would point out that you can't actually fit 16 x 3Gb/s worth of bandwidth over one PCIe lane; if this is v1 PCIe, you have a total of 250MB/s available. That's probably fine for four spinning disks doing backup duty. Here's a 4-port model with named PCIe v2 support and a recognizable SATA chipset, for slightly less money: https://www.newegg.com/syba-si-pex40064-sata-iii/p/N82E16816124064?Item=N82E16816124064 -dsr-
