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Reddit mentions of Semlos PCI Sata Internal Ports Raid Controller Card (4-Ports) Sil3114 Chipset Sata Cables
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We found 8 Reddit mentions of Semlos PCI Sata Internal Ports Raid Controller Card (4-Ports) Sil3114 Chipset Sata Cables. Here are the top ones.
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Add four independent SATA-I ports to your PCI equipped computer and enjoy the benefits of the optional software RAID configuration for added speed and/or data security with this adapter card.（Note it is PCI card,NOT PCIE card）Plug the SATA RAID PCI card into the PCI slot on your motherboard, and connect SATA devices to the ports on the PCI card using the cables provided, or standard SATA cables of adequate length.The card comes with an optional RAID utility which lets you configure a RAID 0 RAID 1 or RAID 0+1 setup on two or more of the SATA portsYou can have one RAID 0 or 1 setup and two independent SATA drives two RAID 0 or 1 sets or a single RAID 0+1 setSupports two models: 32-bit at66MHZ and 64-bit at 133MHZ
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Are you talking about getting just the SSD for now to install on their existing machines? I'd check to see if their motherboard has SATA connectors to support the hard drive. If not you'll probably need something like this
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00L2X6DE6/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1419014929&sr=8-2&pi=SL75
Assuming there is no SATA they would probably have a white PCI slot, again, I would double check.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Semlos-Internal-Controller-Sil3114-Chipset/dp/B00L2X6DE6/ref=sr_1_2?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1504388169&sr=1-2&keywords=4+port+sata
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This is the exact one I bought https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00L2X6DE6/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I'm not big on computers so I'm not sure about all this stuff, from what your saying I guess I bought the wrong one?
>Why would you consider software raid for enterprise level applications / software and not hardware raid?
If he could afford hardware raid this crappy little file server would not even exist haha. Of course that would be ideal, just not in the budget. And this isn't an enterprise level arrangement, this is just a small business running one small application using consumer grade equipment.
I am actually planning on using this "Semlos New PCI SATA Internal Ports RAID Controller" for connecting the drives, which is not a RAID controller at all despite the description. It is only SATA II, but I think the drives I got won't even max that out, much less SATA III. It has 2x1.5Gbps channels, so each drive is getting 750Mbps. The drive specs say they are doing 554 MB/s / 512 MB/s sequential. Unless I misunderstand, there is plenty of room there? But, feel free to correct me if I have that wrong, this is all kinda new to me.
>Also, you sure it's the disk IO that's the issue, and not say network since you are using SSD's (Assuming your motherboard has sata 3.0 ports for those SSD's and not sata 2.0)?
Nope, I am pretty sure the CPU is bottlenecking in addition to the NIC. I ordered a new Gigabit NIC, as stated in my post, and that should also help things I believe. The rest of the network is on CAT6 with gigabit router and switching, but also consumer grade. The router is running DD-WRT though.
>Also, Access is horribly slow anyways, not really meant to be an enterprise level database software handling large volume.
Completely agree with you, but once again this is a small database with not very many users. It isn't heavily accessed all the time, which is why I have been trying to figure out why it is so slow. Some forms just take forever to load, and I didn't build it and am not allowed to modify it. If I came up with very clear and specific design modifications that would increase the performance I could definitely get the author of the DB to implement the changes. But due to my unfamiliarity with Access as a whole and this DB in particular, I am unqualified to do so.
There are PCI SATA expansion cards. Like this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00L2X6DE6/
For anyone who finds this later - I decided to go with the RAID array despite it not being a financial slam dunk. What happened is that I lucked out finding an adapter that allows you to put two 2.5" drives in a 3.5" front drive bay (link) on sale at newegg for $10, so I bought two. My system board has 6 sata ports and a built-in raid controller. I was looking that that vs software RAID solutions and I found Storage Pools in Windows. Hardware RAID solutions are traditionally inflexible (pun intended), and Storage Pools allows you to add drives to the pool as you go. So I set up a 4x500gb storage pool with parity. Turns out the performance on Storage Pools in Windows with Parity is god awful, and some more searching led me to r/DataHoarder, which recommends the software solutions of DrivePool ($30) for concatenating the disks, and SnapRAID (free) for writing parity information. So that's what I'm going with for now.
Like Storage Spaces, Drivepool allows you to add more disks to the pool at any time, which means I can use some of my smaller disks as well if I can get the ports to plug them in. I'll need a PCI SATA adapter, but those are pretty cheap. I'll then need a place to mount them. I can buy more drive bay adapters, some slot mounting adapters, or make my own.
So far I'm at least $50 in the hole, and maybe more depending on whether I get that expansion card and/or mounts. So let's say $90 for an array that'll be about 2.5TB, maybe. I can get a 4TB HDD for $120 or an 8TB for $200 when they're on sale, which seems to make them clearly better deals. I get slightly more data security with the RAID array, but it seems like old laptop hard drives still don't have a specific use.
depends on what you need the drive for.
you can either use a USB drive (if it's just for backups), eSATA (your motherboard may have an open slot for one on the back), or buy a SATA card like this
I followed the link to your NAS build. Instead of a SAS breakout cable, do you think something like this would work just as well? I am doing a very similar build, but with 8tb HDD's.