[clue] Half height PCI SATA?

[Quentin Hartman]

Thanks Aaron. That $130 for the highpoint card is a bit steep for my
application, but a good find. I'll see if I can find a better price on that.

The PCI-X cards are a good idea, but I don't think the motherboard I'm
planning on using with it would work. It has some tall-ish components right
behind the PCI slot and I think the extra fingers would interfere.

Thanks again!


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Aaron D. Johnson <adj at fnord.greeley.co.us>wrote:

> Quentin Hartman writes:
> > I'm having a helluva time finding one of these. At least two
> > internal ports. More ports, internal or external, would be a nice
> > bonus, but not required.
>
> A careful look at the detail pictures for
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115030 will
> show you a low profile mounting bracket.  (Look at the big picture
> that shows the cables.)
>
> Another option might be something like eBay item 370779161625.  This
> is a PCI-X (64-bit) card.  A lot of PCI-X cards will plug into and
> work with a 32-bit PCI slot.  If you don't like the RAID firmware on
> these, I've seem numerous forum articles on converting them from IR
> (integrated RAID) to IT (initiator target) firmware.  Note that you'll
> need cables to break out the 4-port connectors on these cards to
> single SAS/SATA data cables for your drives.
>
> HTH
>
> - Aaron
> _______________________________________________
> clue mailing list: clue at cluedenver.org
> For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:
> http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cluedenver.org/pipermail/clue/attachments/20140203/e2b38fc5/attachment.html