On 9/14/22 14:55, Dan Ritter wrote:
I looked at that one too, Dan, but I've filled up the back panel with usb breakouts and it will take a major re-arrangement to clear a pic-e slot. This mobo only has two, and another drive controller like this 4 port is already in the other slot. Not saying it can't be done, but will be a pita to do. There is also a 6 port onboard controller that I might be able to use for the 2nd raid. With a boot drive, and a buffer drive for amanda, and 4 2T's on it that would fill it up. I've got a usb3 optical drive that burns a dvd now and then so I can do away with the sata drive if push comes to shove. Or the accessory card for the /home raid-10 is a 6 port withgene 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- .
2 empty sockets.Can I make a 2nd raid 10 from two separate controllers? 2 drives on the mobo controller and 2 on the plugin controller? I'd think that could lead to mix-n-match problems given udevs penchant for
shuffling drives. Too many options...... Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>