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I/O Crest 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 2.0 x1 Controller Card Marvell 9215 Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket SI-PEX40064
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    Features:
  • 4 Internal SATA 6Gb/s Ports
  • Compatible with SATA 6G, 3G and 1.5G Hard Drives
  • PCI-Express x1 Interface is Compatible with PCI-Express x2, x4, x8, and x16 slots
  • HyperDuo is configured with at least 1 hard disk drive (HDD) and up to 3 solid state drives (SSD). By embedding automated tiering technology into the chipset.
  • 4 Internal SATA 6Gb/s Ports
  • Compatible with SATA 6G, 3G and 1.5G Hard Drives
  • PCI-Express x1 Interface is Compatible with PCI-Express x2, x4, x8, and x16 slots
Specs:
ColorGreen
Height1.5 Inches
Length7 Inches
Number of items1
Release dateMay 2015
Size4-port
Weight0.2 Pounds
Width5.5 Inches

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u/wagon153 · 17 pointsr/buildapc
How does this look? Board checks all the requirements, and the CPU comes in at a very low 25w TDP, which is great for a system that will be running 24/7. In addition, the board comes with a PCI-E slot, so if you need more SATA ports than the 4 it comes with, you can buy one of these.



PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type|Item|Price
----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor | $34.99 @ SuperBiiz
Motherboard | ASRock AM1B-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard | $34.99 @ Micro Center
Memory | Crucial 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory | $12.99 @ SuperBiiz
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total | $82.97
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-06-28 00:01 EDT-0400 |
u/mrfixitx · 6 pointsr/DataHoarder

If you just want something inexpensive that will still allow you to saturate gigabit lan you could get this card that uses pci-e x1.

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage

u/peterwemm · 5 pointsr/freebsd

Here's what I would do in your situation:

Put the standalone SSD devices on 6Gb+ AHCI motherboard connectors. These will do quite nicely. Motherboard AHCI slots are pretty well connected.

I'd grab a LSI SAS 9207-8i (about $100 on Amazon) and 2 x SFF-8087-SATA fanout cables (about $10 on amazon). It uses the mps driver in the base system. This combination is very, very solid and reliable. I use it myself for a media server.

You can add a second 9207-8i if you need more ports. I've found the AHCI pci cards work well too but watch the PCIe connectivity.

This device: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00AZ9T3OU cost $15.

ahci0: <ASMedia ASM1061 AHCI SATA controller> ...
ahci0: AHCI v1.20 with 2 6Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported

Keep in mind the PCIe lane bandwidth: 1 x PCIe lane is: PCIe 1.x: 250MByte/sec, 2.x: 500MByte/sec, 3.x 985MByte/sec.

That 2 port AHCI card I linked above is 1 lane PCIe2.0. If you put 2 x SSDs on it that could do 600MB/sec each, the most it can shuffle through the motherboard connection is 500MB/sec. The LSI card is 8 lane PCIe 3.0 so that choke-point isn't there.

I'd add a second 9207-8i if I wanted to do any non-trivial amount of IO on more than 8 ports.

Also, don't set your expectations too high for L2ARC. My personal observations lead me to believe that the overheads of running it don't really pay off until you start having a L2ARC device with a good 5x to 10x performance advantage over the backend devices. YMMV of course, but I've never not been disappointed with L2ARC setups.

Personally, I over-spec system ram in preference to L2ARC.

u/dragontamer5788 · 5 pointsr/hardware
  1. ECC support -- If the memory of your QNAP gets corrupted, then your data is lost in transit. By buying ECC Memory, I virtually guarantee that this will not happen to me. (ECC RAM is very similar in concept to RAID6 or RAID5, except instead of for disks ECC RAM is for RAM). Because the entire computer I built is out of ECC RAM, I have one more layer of assurances that the data is safe.

    I have unconfirmed ECC Support. Error Correction does not work on this motherboard as I hoped.

  2. ZFS Support -- ZFS is an enterprise filesystem designed to store data and store data well. Bitrot can destroy your data EVEN if you are running RAID drives. By using ZFS (which is constantly scrubbing, checksumming, and double-checking the data), my system is immune to bitrot. Your typical NAS is not.

  3. The Motherboard immediately supports 6 hard drives. The QNAP only supports 2-drives. In the future, when I buy more drives, I can easily expand my computer. The QNAP is stuck with 2-bay at the maximum.

  4. I'm comfortable with FreeBSD -- This is a soft advantage, but I work with Linux systems at work (and Windows at home and work). So I'm very comfortable with tools like RSync and the command line in general. In any case, I have a clear backup strategy for the NAS: insert an external hard drive (probably NTFS formatted) and then RSync the data to the hard drive, and then store the hard drive elsewhere.

  5. ZFS Snapshots -- ZFS has a lot of advantages. Another major advantage that I plan to take advantage of is snapshots. The entire disk can be stored as a snapshot that only takes up space when files are modified. With ZFS Snapshots, I can rollback the filesystem very easily.

  6. I have a full PC -- This box is a fully functioning PC. If I decided to splurge, I can buy a SAS Card and then start chunking out LTO6 tapes (Which are only $30 for 2.5TB of storage). Granted, a LTO6 Tape Drive is extremely expensive, but a "full PC" has almost no limit to the customization options available to me. A more realistic option is to just buy a cheap expansion card and support maybe... 4 more hard drives in my case for only a $40 upgrade.

    ----------

    So basically, my points come down to:

  7. Reliability (ECC RAM)
  8. Reliability (ZFS Protection vs Bitrot)
  9. ZFS Snapshots and Cloning.
  10. Expandability (6-SATA drives easy. More with a cheap expansion card)
  11. Expandability
  12. I personally have familiarity with *nix command line and can comfortably do advanced tasks on Nas4Free beyond what is even available on the WebGUI.

    Bitrot is a very simple problem to understand. What happens if instead of failing, a Hard Drive starts returning bad data to you? In traditional RAID, the hard drive has NOT crashed, so parity will not be checked. The file may be corrupted despite RAID protecting you. ZFS adds more checks to protect against this problem, while traditional RAID (which most NAS uses) do not.

    There are additional features that are interesting (Webserver support, Bittorrent support, DLNA server, Headless Virtualbox). But I don't plan to do anything complicated. So I'm mostly focused on reliability.

    Of course, NAS4Free supports the standard NAS features. You can easily add hard drives to zpools which can then be added to datastores. Volumes can be exported with iSCSI. Datastores can be exported using CIFS / Samba for Microsoft support, NFS for Linux Support, AFP support to support Mac OSX... or all three if you got a complicated setup. QNAP, Synology and all the commercial solutions will get you at least this much, which is hugely useful.
u/Antrasporus · 4 pointsr/DataHoarder

It depends on how many ports more you need and if you have some pcie slots free. I have two sybia cards with 4 ports each, similiar to this one here - amazon link

u/Duamerthrax · 3 pointsr/hackintosh

Ok, it's been a while since I researched this. I can tell you that all the cards work though. If I remember correctly, this card is the best for 4 internal ports. This one if you only have a 1x slot available. And this one if you also want some eSATA ports

I have all these cards in my Hackintosh I'm typing on right now without any drivers. They all support hot swap as well.

u/waraxx · 3 pointsr/PleX

how hot are they running?

if you lack sata data ports then you can add some more by buying a sata expantion card.

a card such as this one should do the trick.

Sata expantion card

I have two of these running smoothly on ubuntu 16.04 and should be no problem for windows. worked out of the box for me.

u/nerplederple · 3 pointsr/freenas

If it's just a data drive and you're not looking to do anything super fancy with it. These work great.

However, be advised that, because the card is PCI-E x1, if you were to actually plug in 4 hard drives or SSDs, you're gonna run smack against bandwidth limitations if you start trying to hammer I/O on the drives connected to the card all at once.

I have this exact card as well as the 2-port PCI-E x2 slot version in use and they work very well for supplementing on-board headers when you're a few short.

I would not attempt to use these cards to run HDDs/SSDs that were going to be datastores for VMs nor as the HBA for something like FreeNAS. If your goal is along those lines, you'd be much better off looking for an HBA like the 9207-8i. You can get those way, way cheap on ebay, and then you just need the correct cables for 'em.

u/Sl0rk · 3 pointsr/unRAID

This is the one I use and it works fine - https://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-Controller-Non-Raid-SI-PEX40064/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1543180924&sr=8-3&keywords=IOCrest+SI-PEX40064

Although it costs a lot more that it should be for some reason. I paid $15 for it on Newegg.

u/mattbuford · 3 pointsr/HomeNetworking

I've been doing this for many years. I just run a regular Linux distro and do not run a special NAS OS. My router is the same way - just a regular Linux distro.

My general goals are low power and cheap with lots of drives. I don't generally care about size or performance.

Components:

Case: I have a full tower case I've been using for 20-ish years. For you, anything you want with 5.25" bays. Here's my old one, which is huge, but has a ton of 5.25" bays:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/383

SATA hotswap bays: I've been using 3 of these for 10+ years to give me 9 bays:

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Drive-Trayless-Mobile-Backplane/dp/B000NMAZU0

3 of those gives me 9 hotswap bays. However, one thing I don't like about them is the small 40mm fans on the back. Those things seem to last 2-3 years, and with 2*3=6 of them in my case, there' always one dying and making horrible grinding noises (or completely stopped). Even worse, replacing them requires removing the bay from my case, then using a screwdriver to take apart the back of the bay. Other than the fan, the bays work great.

/u/bigdizizzle posted this and and if I were doing it over again, I'd probably give this a try hoping the larger fan dies less often (and half the fans means less failures per year).

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817995111

Motherboard + CPU: I have this:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157513

I went with this because it is a moderately powerful system (quad core with decent IO), has 3 PCIe slots (all are 2.0 1x, but one is physically 16x), USB3.0 for any external drives I might want to add, it uses normal desktop RAM, and it is very low power. The completed system, with an SSD but no hard drives, pulls 14 watts. There are smalled mITX versions, but those only give you one PCIe slot plus you have to use SODIMMs, so I suggest going with the mATX versions. Best of all, the price was right at $70 for the motherboard+CPU. Oh, and it is fanless. Some options I looked at had 40mm fans on the motherboard/CPU and past experience (my previous NAS build was with Atom330 motherboards) taught me that 40mm fans on the motherboard die or make horrible sounds quickly.

But, that motherboard is now old. Some newer, similar options, which I have not fully researched are:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157729

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157807

My J1900 and the 2 above CPUs compared:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Celeron-J1900-vs-Intel-Celeron-J3455-vs-Intel-Celeron-J4105/2131vs2875vs3159

Weirdly, the last and best one (J4105) is limited to 8GB RAM, while the lower end J3455 and my old J1900 both handle 16GB. I don't know what's up with that.

Biostar makes a nearly identical J1900 board called the J1900MH2 and I bought one of those too (for $50 open box). It's basically identical, but hotswap does not work on the two internal SATA ports. So, I used that one for my router and the Asrock (with working hotswap) became my NAS. So, beware of Biostar BIOS possibly not supporting hotswap on the internal ports. I'd stick to Asrock.

More SATA ports: The motherboard comes with 2, and then I added 3 of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/

This isn't high performance, but we're talking PCIe 2.0 1x anyway. Hard drives tend to be slow anyway. These plus the internal ports gives me 14 SATA ports. These have proven reliable under Linux.

End result:

I have a NAS with 14 SATA ports, 9 hotswap bays, gigabit Ethernet, an OK (not great, not terrible) CPU, and I pull only 14 watts plus the hard drives. The USB 3.0 lets me connect a bunch of USB hard drives too.

Currently, I have 7 3.5" drives in there. I also have 9 external drives connected by USB 3.0. Those external drives are for backups, and they power on every night, perform a backup, and then power off. Those USB enclosures contain all my old junk hard drives from old computers. There is even a PATA drive still in use there. The backups array is where my old drives go to be run until they die.

My system has enough ram and CPU to run some VMs. I have one VM running a torrentbox that VPNs itself to a VPN provider, and anther VM running as a Bitcoin full node. Then, of course, the NAS is serving SMB to my regular PCs. This also runs as my "server" for various random things like MRTG, Munin, and so on.

Finally, I like that it is power efficient. That helps heat generation too.

Just within the past couple weeks, I got one of these:

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817198068

I haven't installed it yet though. This is the same idea as the 3.5" bays, but for 6 hotswap 2.5" drives (SSDs) into a single 5.25" bay. My boot drive array is 5x1TB drives (RAID6) that are at 84334 hours of runtime (9.6 years) so I'm thinking it's probably about time to replace them - with SSDs. I also have 2x8TB drives in RAID1 used for mass storage (videos, etc).

Just as a suggestion, what I did was put /boot on a USB thumb drive and then my OS right on the main RAID6 array. That way I get great high reliability for my OS drive, but the thumb drive is there to take care of booting and initramfs (required to mdadm + LVM before trying to mount /). I didn't want to put /boot on a hard drive, since they're much more likely to fail than a USB flash drive sitting there almost never getting written to (only on kernel upgrades).

OS + old storage

cat /proc/mdstat

Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] <br />
md127 : active raid6 sdb[2] sda[0] sdc[1] sdg[4] sdd[3]<br />
      2930279232 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [UUUUU]<br />
# df -h /<br />
Filesystem                     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br />
/dev/mapper/storage1-storage1  2.5T  2.2T  194G  92% /<br />



New mass storage:

btrfs fi show /storage/

Label: 'storage'  uuid: a6864940-727c-4740-a20d-1f37a202006b<br />
        Total devices 2 FS bytes used 4.54TiB<br />
        devid    1 size 7.28TiB used 4.74TiB path /dev/sde<br />
        devid    6 size 7.28TiB used 4.74TiB path /dev/sdf<br />


Backups pile of old drives:

btrfs fi show /backups/

Label: 'backups'  uuid: 81f5c405-9864-4178-b964-ed60149caa82<br />
        Total devices 9 FS bytes used 3.79TiB<br />
        devid    1 size 931.51GiB used 903.00GiB path /dev/sdk<br />
        devid    2 size 931.51GiB used 904.00GiB path /dev/sdl<br />
        devid    4 size 111.76GiB used 86.00GiB path /dev/sdq<br />
        devid    5 size 465.76GiB used 440.00GiB path /dev/sdp<br />
        devid    6 size 465.76GiB used 440.03GiB path /dev/sdm<br />
        devid    7 size 1.82TiB used 1.79TiB path /dev/sdn<br />
        devid    8 size 2.73TiB used 2.70TiB path /dev/sdi<br />
        devid    9 size 465.76GiB used 440.00GiB path /dev/sdj<br />
        devid   10 size 931.51GiB used 22.00GiB path /dev/sdo<br />


My router, as mentioned earlier, uses the Biostar version of the same MB as my NAS, but obviously without the SATA bays or the SATA cards. One of the PCIe slots has a dual port gig Ethernet card. This lets me do dual WAN. Then, boot is a cheap 120 GB SSD. Total power usage is 14 watts.

u/cakepodharry · 2 pointsr/burstcoin

Nope. The single connector on that cable is a SFF-8087 SAS Connector (NOT a SATA connector which your motherboard will have!).

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI, server grade / enterprise) controllers are backwards-compatible with SATA (Serial ATA, "mainstream" / consumer) Drives, but SATA is not forwards-compatible with SAS. If you have a SAS Controller, yes you can hook up 4 drives to a single SAS port, but if you have SAS Drives (And for this purpose that cable can be thought of as turning your drives into SAS Drives even though technically it really isn't) you can't connect them to a SATA Controller.

SAS Controllers are server-grade gear, and come in at several hundreds of dollars for the "cheap" ones.

Get a cheap HBA (Host Bus Adapter) card to go in a PCIe port, like the ones everyone else is suggesting.

This one is 4 port and (allegedly) has hot swap support (no rebooting when plugging / unplugging drives) which your motherboard probably won't have (Some nice ones do though):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/
But I'm sure you could find cheaper.

u/Silent_Gemini · 2 pointsr/burstcoin

IO Crest 8 Port Sata using the Marvell 88SE9705 chipset
Would not recognize all of the drives, further researched pointed to the Windows Driver issues.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ESFEI2E/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s03?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;psc=1


Ableconn PEX10-SAT 10 Port SATA
This card is a work horse, I have had no issues with it under Windows 10. Chipset ASMedia ASM1062 + 2x JMicron JMB575
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0177GBY0Y/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;psc=1


IO Crest 4-port SATA III PCIe
Chipset Marvell 88SE9215
I am running two of these cards with out issue with Windows 10
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;psc=1

u/shiggitay · 2 pointsr/hackintosh

I've used several SATA PCI-E x1 cards in my hacks. Ppl on TMx86 can tell you what ones work, but here's one I got recently and it works great: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;psc=1. There's also an 8 port version but it's like $90... of which wasn't in my budget when I got it.

u/manifest3r · 2 pointsr/unRAID

I have a 4-port PCI-e expansion card, using it without any issues on 2 1TB drives, and 1 500GB drive. Model number is SI-PEX40064.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/

u/GeekMania · 2 pointsr/PleX

With regards to additional sata connections, a SAS backplane to A HBA card is out the question at the moment but to start with would something like this be fine to use:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Network-Interface-Cards/Syba-PCI-e-Controller-Profile-Brackets/B00AZ9T3OU

If so would it be fine to connect the drives that plex use to that or will that cause issues with the plex server? (if im watching something on a hdd connected to the pci card and my partner wants to watch something else on the ipad but that is on a different hdd also connected to the pci card)

u/darkslyde27 · 2 pointsr/unRAID

i/o crest works wonders, it's x1, 4 sata III ports that be had at $35. I/O Crest SI-PEX40064 i'm sure you can find them cheaper.

&amp;#x200B;

they are also known as SYBA SI-PEX40064 aka. IOCrest IO-PCE9215-4I
(from unraid HW comp list: 4 port, PCIex1, SATA III, Marvell 88SE9215, bootable, working out of the box, supports drives &gt; 2.2 TB)


I use that on my low power box with four 2TB wd greens and don't have any issues. if you want to go with something better, SAS2008/LSI 9201/9211 HBA card on IT MODE is the clear cut winner for ease and compatibility. cons: they're a little more expensive ($65 + price of cables).

u/mvillar24 · 2 pointsr/unRAID

The question about PCI-E SATA cards is how much you are willing to spend and what available PCI-E slots do you have on your motherboard.

The cheapest I've tried (with slowest throughput) when you only have PCI-E 1x slots free is to use four port SATA cards like this Marvell 88SE9215 chipset based card for $33 on Amazon:
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU)

If you got at least a PCI-E 4x slot you can something faster for $100 - $160 such as (note these are 8 port cards):

  1. HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL 8-Port
  2. Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

    On eBay used:
  3. Dell HV52W PERC H310

    A number of the above solutions are not as fast as you can go since they use PCI-E 4x slots. But 8x slot cards can cost a lot more. Personally I don't notice the slow down as much since I'm really using these drives to stream and don't notice that parity checks and moving data from cache to permanent drives take longer.
u/Jordanl91 · 2 pointsr/PleX

How many PCIE slots do you have open? You can always just get one of these
IO Crest 4-port SATA III PCIe 2.0 x2 Controller Card Green, SI-PEX40064 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_3fkRAbD3HN5GJ
Rebuild your case if you don’t have enough space and get hot swappable 3.5 bays. It all just depends on budget and what you want / have.

u/AFellowOfLimitedJest · 2 pointsr/buildapc

Just finished my first build, and realised I need more SATA III ports than the 2 on my GA-AB350M-Gaming-3.
In lieu of a motherboard change, I'm looking to add more with a PCI-e card.

Am I right in thinking that this "Syba SI-PEX40064 SATA III 4 Port PCI-e x1 Controller Card" will:

a) fit into a PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4) (PCI Express 2.0 standard) on the GA-AB350M-Gaming-3?
b) work just like SATA III ports on the motherboard (same speed, function)?

2 SSDs are already attached to the 2 SATA III ports on the motherboard.
I intend to attach 2 old HDDS (1.5 TB + 500 GB, 5900 rpm Sata III 6 Gb/s) to the card, and another SSD in the future.

u/c0deater · 2 pointsr/hackintosh

heres another one at half the price, however it appears to only work with windows... ill keep looking though
edit: forgot link, heres another one alsohttp://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-Profile-Bracket-SI-PEX40064/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=sr_1_39?s=pc&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1382827898&amp;sr=1-39&amp;keywords=pcie+to+sata+3



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815287028



and another: http://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-HyperDuo-Brackets-SI-PEX40057/dp/B00AZ9T264/ref=sr_1_47?s=pc&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1382828245&amp;amp;sr=1-47&amp;amp;keywords=pcie+to+sata+3




heres my amazon search for the amazon links: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_pg_3?rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A193870011%2Cn%3A3012291011%2Cn%3A284718%2Ck%3Apcie+to+sata+3&amp;amp;page=3&amp;amp;sort=price&amp;amp;keywords=pcie+to+sata+3&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1382828285

u/doggxyo · 2 pointsr/HomeNAS

I used this thing. This one only gets you four SATA ports, but there are other models that'll get you more. I chose this one because of the price and I didn't want the card to add any sort of hardware RAID. I wanted to just add more ports and pass the disks to FreeNAS for RAID.

I believe Dell makes two kinds of OptiPlex's. Small form factor and Large form factor. Mine was the LFF. I'm not sure about the differences in motherboards between the two.


If I recall correctly, I put this card into the 1 PCIe 16 slot, leaving (2?) more available PCIe ports.

u/daemen · 2 pointsr/freenas

Like the other commenters have said, you don't want a RAID card, but either an HBA or SATA expansion card.

Here's a 4-port on on amazon.es

There's plenty of reviews of the same model on amazon.com saying it works out-of-the-box with FreeNAS.

u/Big_Papi_Knows · 2 pointsr/buildapcsales

I have one of these that has worked well for me. I think there are better performance devices out there, but for a HDD that's just storing media for me it has worked like a charm.

IO Crest 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 2.0 x1 Controller Card Marvell Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket SI-PEX40064 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_FUw-BbJYBQTGS

u/Singular_Brane · 2 pointsr/hackintosh

pci Sata ports

pci extension

Then you can always get a pci ssd adapter.

u/ctrlaltd1337 · 2 pointsr/bapcsalescanada

I have a server motherboard with SAS -&gt; SATA ports so I can plug in one of these and get 4x SATA ports from one port. For power, I use these power splitters that allow me to neatly add power to a column of HDDs. I run one of the splitters per power line from the PSU. Before I had a server motherboard, I used this PCIE SATA card.

u/095179005 · 2 pointsr/buildapc

Nope. Electricity works that way, data doesn't.

https://i.imgur.com/zBSFsfj.png

You will need to plug the 960 EVO into the top most M.2 slot, labelled M.2_3

That will leave you with 7 SATA ports.

You will then need a PCIe to SATA card, to give you the extra 2 ports you need.

https://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-Controller-Non-Raid-SI-PEX40064/dp/B00AZ9T3OU

You'll plug it into the PCIe_4 slot.

u/Fiberton · 2 pointsr/zfs

https://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-Controller-Non-Raid-SI-PEX40064/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=IO+Crest+4+Port+SATA+III+PCI-e+2.0+x1+Controller+Card+Marvell+Non-Raid+with+Low+Profile+Bracket+SI-PEX40064&amp;qid=1566925845&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1 shove one of these cheap ones in. Plug some new drives to it. Start replacing the drives. Once 4 of the drives replaced just power down and pull the other drives out if that is what you need to do. Then finish the rest or get two of those cheap cards.

u/NiBuch · 2 pointsr/buildapcsales

Not seeing much that's compelling besides the Logitech G930s at $59 and the Syba SATA controllers at $22.

A lot of the components are around the same price as the items go for new.

u/TimeTravellerSmith · 2 pointsr/buildapc

You can skip the RAID and just get a SATA expansion card if it's the number of ports your worried about.

You'd only want a RAID card if you're going to be doing RAID setups that aren't natively supported by your mobo.

u/teh_fearless_leader · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

As /u/just_insane has mentioned, plex is a good option for streaming. I'm an opponent of freenas, in favor of using something homebrew (zfsonlinux with debian or ubuntu, in my case, gentoo with zfs) to do what you need. I don't like how finicky freenas can be even with server-grade hardware. It's just not my thing.

That said, for someone who's new, it may be a good idea to try out freenas or nas4free. I just finished building a 16TB usable (20.5TB raw) system last week. I'll link my items below.

2x iocrest controllers

1x16GB kingston ECC ram

1xNZXT source 210

5xHGST 4TB deskstar NAS

1xsupermicro mbd-x9scm-f-o - Great board. Loving it so far. dual onboard nic is nice.

2x850 Pro 256GB that I had laying around

1x 550W PSU laying around.

total ran me about $1300 and I'm able to max out a 2x1GB LACP setup writing and reading directly on rust.

EDIT: my recommendation, in most cases, is to at least do raidz1 (RAID5). RAID is no substitute for backups though, so invest in something offsite and make sure it's staying backed up. I use CrashPlan for offsite and local backups and it works like a charm.

u/Something_Funny · 1 pointr/unRAID

I put together almost the exact same build a year or so ago to replace my Drobo. Like your case selection better than mine. The only thing I might suggest is springing for an i5 if you're going to be transcoding multiple streams.

I recently decided to add more HDDs to my build and ran out of SATA ports. Expanded with this. Good luck!

u/12sub · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

this is one of them
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;psc=1
Cant remember the other model. Pretty much the same thing though.

u/zSars · 1 pointr/unRAID

I know for a fact that this one works:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;psc=1


and this one does not work

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132018

Hope this helps

edit: Pretty sure the Marvell chipset makes the difference

u/IvivAitylin · 1 pointr/Amd

I just grabbed a cheap one off Amazon, this one specifically.

u/nullx · 1 pointr/freenas

Yes, FreeNAS-11.2-U5, was also working on U4.

I literally just plugged it in and plugged a drive in to it and it worked. I also have switched drives between the controller and the motherboard and that works too without breaking my pools. Support for the Marvell 9215 chipset was apparently added in FreeBSD 9.2... Not sure why you would be having trouble, does the card work in a different PC?

Oh fuck my bad, I Just double checked and THIS is the one I got... Slightly different but super close image wise. The one I got has the Marvel 9215, the one OP linked has Marvel 9235.. But based on a quick google it looks like the 9235 was added to be supported in FreeBSD 9 as well...

u/Josey9 · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

Thanks for the warning. If I buy this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU directly from Amazon, it should be fine, right?

u/ChaiGong · 1 pointr/freenas

&gt;If it's just a data drive and you're not looking to do anything super fancy with it. These work great.

I had a card with the same chipset and it was utter shite. Seemed to work fine, but I got all kinds of SMART errors (related to data transfer, not the drives themselces), drives would spontaneously be kicked from their vdev array, drive commands would fail, etc.

I recommend never using PCI SATA expanders. You can get an LSI HBA for the same price plus rock solid performance and better speed.

u/SeaNap · 1 pointr/PleX

Before I got my 24 bay case I used a couple of these pci cards to get me 14 sata ports (6+4+4)

Now I use an LSI HBA card to the SAS backplane, but you can use SAS to SATA cables. You should be able to find them for cheap on ebay if you want to go that route

u/Polaris2246 · 1 pointr/unRAID

My buddy and I each built unraid servers in the past month. He went higher specs with a Xeon e3-1250v3 and a higher end consumer motherboard. Hes going to get an AMD rx480 video card for it so he has a second gaming computer for anyone that comes over. 16 gigs of ecc RAM. I went more power efficient and bought a supermicro board with an Intel Avalon C2750 CPU. It's essentially a server Atom CPU. It uses 20watts and has eight cores and 16 gigs of ecc RAM too. The motherboard has the right features I wanted. ipmi built in, four nics and some other stuff. I was worried the CPU would be under powered by it packs plenty of power for my docker containers. Sonarr for auto TV downloading, couch potato, nextcloud server, web server, MySQL server, modded Minecraft server, crash plan backup server, and others. I barely eat up 30% CPU when everything is running and actually doing something. Idle is below 5%. I don't have Plex on it because my Nvidia shield does that. It's surprised me a lot how much power it has. If you want gaming, it's not for you but it is more than enough as a file server and the applications its running and plenty more.

Motherboard/CPU

16GB RAM

SATA Controller Card (needed more sata ports than motherboard had)

Power Supply

[2x SSD for Cache/Pool set up]
(https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FJ4UN76/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;psc=1)

5x WD Red 3TB

Better fans for case

Case (LOVE the case)

u/DARKZIDE4EVER · 1 pointr/PleX

&gt; SI-PEX40064

Thanks, I initiated a return with refund to Amazon of the Syba I ordered which had RAID option and got the IO Crest of that same model you mentioned. Hope this works.

Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-Controller-Non-Raid-SI-PEX40064/dp/B00AZ9T3OU

u/ihoman202 · 1 pointr/homelab

Looking at this for an alternative to going to totally new server since I have an old Pentium III that does server related things. Would this work?

https://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-SI-PEX40057-HyperDuo-Controller/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1502492023&amp;amp;sr=1-4&amp;amp;keywords=8%2Bsata%2Bport%2Bcontroller&amp;amp;th=1

u/cetteup · 1 pointr/Proxmox

It's honestly way easier to get a cheap SATA PCIe controller, attach the BD drive to it and pass the controller through to the VM. You can get controllers for around 20 bucks (eg. this one from amazon.com). PCI passthrough on Proxmox is experimental, but the setup is well documented.

u/Remo_253 · 1 pointr/techsupport

What make/model is the PC? While I agree with /u/LetsGetBlotto in general many of the less expensive PCs from the likes of Dell, HP, etc. use custom motherboards and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if, to save a few pennies per board, they cut out any extra ports.

If that's the case, do you have an open PCI-E slot? If so you can add an expansion adapter.

Taking a step back though, the main reason for adding an SSD is to speed up the PC, speeding up any reads and writes to disk. That means the best use is as the main C: drive where the OS is installed. You can replace the existing drive with an SSD instead of adding it in addition to the HDD. There's a process called cloning that copies everything from the HDD to the SSD. Although many will recommend a clean Windows install, cloning is simpler, no need to reinstall all your programs.

u/godzplague89 · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

Hmm will it still perform if the only other pcie slot on my Mobo that can support x8 size will only run in x2 mode. Wonder if something like this would be better? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_ykhWCbKXVWF5G

u/Puptentjoe · 1 pointr/PleX

PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS

u/hymness1
If you mean one of those $25 cards like this do not buy these. I’ve had about ten in my past and they can die and/or throw errors easily. You get dead ports, it’s a crappy nightmare.

I ended up getting an HBA card for my big server and a Dell Perc H200 already put into IT mode off eBay for $50. These cards are way better than pci expansion cards.

u/kalehulk · 1 pointr/PleX

I use this one in an Unraid box.

I/O Crest 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 2.0 x1 Controller Card Marvell 9215 Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket SI-PEX40064 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_9ZTDCbDQ60DH5

u/svenge · 1 pointr/buildapc

Hmm, that is problematic. Perhaps something like this PCIe to SATA add-on card would be a solution.

u/whoisstewiegriffin · 1 pointr/buildapc

Hi folks - I need to buy a new controller card - I currently have this controller. Wondering if there is a newer model that I should consider or another one you might recommend? This is the motherboard. It does need to be low profile.

u/zakabog · 1 pointr/pcmasterrace

You're not likely going to find a new desktop motherboard that supports more than 6 SATA ports without getting a SATA controller. Also, as someone that used to have 12 HDDs, if you have a mix and match of different drives with no RAID then I would highly suggest purchasing one or two much larger drives and moving everything to those. HDDs have a finite lifespan and around the 5 year mark everything starts to break down and files become unreadable.

What I normally do when I'm shopping for an HDD is go to PC Part Picker, filter out ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte (I had too many bad experiences with cheap motherboards to go with ASRock again), filter out the specs I need (in your case 6 SATA Ports and Z370 or Z390 for the 8700K) then sort by price from lowest to highest. I did all of that here for you.

u/til_you_rock · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

For $26.99 add four more ports via PCI-E 1x expansion card.

https://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-Controller-Non-Raid-SI-PEX40064/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/

u/airmantharp · 1 pointr/zfs

Bumping to say that I'm using this cheaper one, but it's also on Server 2016 that is sharing the drives to FreeNAS through Hyper-V for ZFS pools, which are a combination of ports on this card and on the motherboard, ten drives total. No major complaints; only minor one is that the attached drives showing up as removable, which is scary when removing USB drives in Windows as they show up in that menu.

I've considered an LSI server pull as a replacement- I have more drives!- but haven't gotten around to it yet.

u/H1Tzz · 1 pointr/buildapc

man im in pretty much same boat as you, i currently have 4790k also and my mobo is dying, its in worse condition than yours( motherboards vrm are failing which causes random shutdowns) and im saving for ryzen system because in my country there is pretty much zero used good haswell motherboards and getting from ebay or something similar is pretty expensive considering i could just sell my 32gb vengeance ram along with cpu and use those extra 200-400 euros for new system which will have upgradeability, nvme, better performance and so on. Also i have 1070 which im saving it too ofc. I think you have 2 options, first would be to get sata-pcie expansion card such as this I personaly never tried it though. Or as me, sell your current ram and cpu and just upgrade.

u/velogeek · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

The issue is that SAS1 was created during the era of PCIE 1.0. Even at 12Gbps per cable (of 4 channels), you would still saturate an x4 card with a single port. It was necessary to use an x8 and even then, it was possible to saturate that link with a dual connector card.

PCIE 2.0 was released just before SAS2 and this basically put it in the same scenario where you can get 24gbps per connector but with 500Mbps per lane. So, a dual connector card can do a theoretical 48Gbps whereas an x8 PCIe can only do 40Gbps. Again, not a terrible bandwidth issue because workloads are rarely that sequential.

So in reality, there's just never been a business need for an x1 HBA. On the other hand, cards like this one exist in the consumer space for just adding SATA ports to an x1. If OP has a 2.0 slot (possible but not sure how likely since standard PCI was given as an option...) then that card can add a few ports - it just won't be expandable and the jury is out on whether or not it's a true HBA in regards to passing drive data.

u/tms10000 · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

All HBA are going to be working out of the box with a modern Linux distribution. I use super crappy IOCrest or Syba branded HBA like this one:

https://www.amazon.com/IO-Crest-Controller-Non-Raid-SI-PEX40064/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/

But I learned from this sub that those should be avoided. The ones that tend to be recommended are the one with LSI chipsets. But for those I have little experience (though many recommendations exist on this sub)

u/GT_YEAHHWAY · 1 pointr/unRAID

I have this adapter and it doesn't show up in BIOS on my B450M board.

Should I get a riser then switch adapters?

u/PriceKnight · 1 pointr/bapcsalescanada

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u/dannybuoyuk · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

I got this, looks identical to the one already posted: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/

Also have one on the way that hooks up to the mini-PCI-E card slot on my mobo designed for wifi cards: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/272329179239

Bear in mind PCI-E x1 doesn't have enough bandwidth to use all 4 drives at their peak (although copying from drive to drive attached to the same card might be another story).

u/M3rc_Nate · 1 pointr/buildapc

Wow, thanks! This is exactly the type of response I was looking for.

If I was to go with those options it looks like I would save a LOT of money. Any recommendation on what PCIe SATA card to get if I'm looking to add say 4 ports?.

That's just $130 for the case, mobo and CPU. Do you have a RAM (16GB) recommendation? I assume if my mobo/cpu choice was overkill that the ECC RAM was too. Still if the RAM is $80 still that's $210...then a PSU (again a recommendation?) which is probably $50, the PCIe card is $40... a grand total of like $300 for a DIY NAS. Pretty awesome.

u/nobearclaw · 1 pointr/freenas

I use one of these: IO Crest 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 2.0 x1 Controller Card Marvell Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket SI-PEX40064 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_.8j.zbB9E0901

It works well, but I don't do tons of read/write as I only is mine for backups. I would recommend to get hba if you're going to use it for a lot...going to be better for u in the long run.

u/SuperPunnyRedditName · 1 pointr/Proxmox

This is my server case that I use. I use these cables to go from the back plane to these PCIe sata cards. Back when I used to have my server running Windows I had bought a RAID controller. It wasn't until after I switched to proxmox that I found out the controller wasn't compatible. I think this is a much cheaper option, and I already have multiple of these so my server is pretty much already filled. That is a good idea though. I just didn't really find a good authoritative list on what RAID controllers actually work well with proxmox a few years ago, that is why I went this route. Thanks for the idea though

u/betstick · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

One is on an MSI X99-A(?) motherboard, and the other is on this guy: Link

u/averam · 0 pointsr/DataHoarder

How many drives did you connect to it? From the post i've got feeling that there are two connected (each drive). This card uses ASM1061 chipset which uses only one pci-e lane for data so maybe that's where the bottleneck is?

The second card which you've linked looks a bit better for me. It uses an Marvell 88SE9215 chipset which has some pretty solid reviews, for most people: "it just works". But i would never try to connect four drives in it - it uses only PCI Express ×1 x2 connector.

I was searching for inexpensive card for my home NAS to connect one additional drive right now and second in the future. For my server I've chosen an Delock PCI Express Card which uses an Marvell 88SE9230 chipset which is giving me normal, stable SATA 3 performance. Disk is visible in BIOS and is bootable. This card uses PCI-E x4 connector so it got more bandwith to use. Be advised that i'm right now only using this for one drive so it is not throttled by anything else and i'm only planning to keep max two disk on it.

As u/daericg, said: "You get for what you've paid for". If you want high, stable speeds then you should invest in eg. Perc H310. You can probably find many of them in good prices because (as far as i remember) Dell uses them in some of their workstations and some shops are reselling them. If you want inexpensive card for sata disks i would look at the Delock card linked above.

EDIT: links