[clue] Half height PCI SATA?

[Quentin Hartman]

Found one finally, and in the feature / price range I want:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124018

Didn't think to search on "low profile". Silly me.

QH


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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