acdcking12 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 So I currently have 8 HDD's connected to my internal Sata ports and all are within the drivepool. If I were to get something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115114 Could I attach additional drives to this card and would I be able to add them to the pool as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 RJGNOW Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I don't see why not. You have enough space, power and cooling in the case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 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. acdcking12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 acdcking12 Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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So I currently have 8 HDD's connected to my internal Sata ports and all are within the drivepool.
If I were to get something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115114
Could I attach additional drives to this card and would I be able to add them to the pool as well?
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