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You definitely could.

Though I do beleive I'd had somebody with an issue with this card. I'm not 100% certain though.

 

Personally I have the "RocketRAID" version of this card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115111

You'd need to get breakout cables as well... such as these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA00Z0TX9124

 

This is obviously a it more expensive, but it supports 8 drives instead. And may make cable management a bit cleaner.

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You definitely could.

Though I do beleive I'd had somebody with an issue with this card. I'm not 100% certain though.

 

Personally I have the "RocketRAID" version of this card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115111

You'd need to get breakout cables as well... such as these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA00Z0TX9124

 

This is obviously a it more expensive, but it supports 8 drives instead. And may make cable management a bit cleaner.

 

 

So basically, if I had 8 drives, and I buy 2 of those break out cables, all I do is plug the one end to one of the controllers on the card, and that would allow me to use the 4 connections on the other end to plug firectly into 4 HDD's?

 

Never used breakout cables before.

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Yes, exactly. The "breakout" cable uses a SFF-8087 connection (that's the name... and what's on the card I linked), and then it fans out to 4x normal SATA data connections. And you plug those directly into the drives. For the card I linked, you'd need 2 of these breakout cables, but it would then support 8 drives.

 

You could get much more complicated with expander cards and such... but I just want to keep this simple. (and that's best for RAID solutions).

 

And you shouldn't experience any bottle necking. It's a PCIe v2.0 8x (8 lane) card. Each "lane" gets 500MB/s on 2.0. So that's plenty of bandwidth for the card and drives.

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