Peter Arremann wrote: > On Friday 24 June 2005 03:24, Feizhou wrote: > >>Do you have any information on PCIe storage controllers? > [list of controllers] > In all - not really worth it right now in my opinion... might be faster than > PCI-X but all the options above are fairly new - therefore untested and > probably more difficult to set up than you'd expect. Thanks for the info. > > > > >>I have googled and gone here and there but not found anything. >> >>Do you know of any card that supports more than 4 SATA ports without a >>dumb fakeraid tacked on? Just a pure SATA card with more than 4 ports. > > Unfortunately that will be virtually impossible to find... If you want more > than 4 ports, a real raid card will probably be your only option. :( i hope somebody makes a card with that broadcom chip that supports 8 SATA ports without add any dumb fakeraid. http://www.broadcom.com/products/Enterprise-Small-Office/Storage-Solutions/BCM5770 Any 4 port SATA only controllers around? That was hard for me to find too. > Some fakeraid controllers allow you to completely disable the firmware though > - I'm sure you've read through it - but just in case you didn't... > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html Thanks.