On 3/27/2012 2:02 PM, Jason Matthews wrote:
e-SATA shares the same electrical specification as SATA. The primary
difference is in the cable shielding specification. I would consider using a
LSI card and an adapter to go from the non/lightly shielded internal SATA
cable to the heavily shielded e-SATA cable. I am not aware of anyone who
makes one with a repeater to maintain super high signal quality but it
should work w/o such a device (supermicro does it all the time ;-], where as
Intel doesn't).
If you get an 8-port card you could dump your onboard ports altogether and
get the hot-plug you deserve. For 1068e based products you'll want the
SAS3801-R -- while it comes with the RAID firmware it is designed for
internal ports. The plan SAS3081 has two four port external plugs which you
don't want.
You should be able to flash the SAS3081-R with the IT firmware or simply not
configure RAID on it, in which case the drives are exposed as JBODs by
default.
Jason, I appreciate the input, but as I said, I'm already slot limited.
My mobo only has one pci-e slot, and that is occupied by the 8-port
m1015 HBA :(
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