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Re: Motherboard with many SATA ports: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum ?



Am Montag 28 November 2005 23:20 schrieb Lennart Sorensen:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Chris DiVirgilio wrote:
> > I believe you can.  You can definitely put a 4x PCIe card into a 16x
> > slot, I'm not sure it the SLI-ishness makes a difference.  That's
> > probably the question you're asking.
>
> I would be surprised if it did make a difference myself, but I don't
> have such a board or such a card to try.  But given most board configure
> it as 16x and 1x or 8x and 8x, it actually might not be a bad way to get
> a cheap consumer board that can run a very nice PCIe raid card. :)  Of
> course if you are silly you could run the video card in 16x and the
> other slot in 1x and just starve the raid card with only 500MB/s of
> bandwidth.  Not sure why they use 4x and 8x connectors on the raid
> cards.  PCIe 16x does seem to be just PCIe with more lanes, but maybe I
> am guessing wrong and the 16x slots are special for video in some
> manner.  Hopefully not though.
>
> Len Sorensen

Areca for my. It has 4 Lines and it's much more than need.
Just thinking that one disk not more than 70 MB/s deliver you need an 12 port 
raid kontroller to produce an so high stream.

Markus



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