<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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.<br><br></div>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.<br>
<br></div>Thanks again!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Aaron D. Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adj@fnord.greeley.co.us" target="_blank">adj@fnord.greeley.co.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">Quentin Hartman writes:<br>
> I'm having a helluva time finding one of these. At least two<br>
> internal ports. More ports, internal or external, would be a nice<br>
> bonus, but not required.<br>
<br>
</div>A careful look at the detail pictures for<br>
<a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115030" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115030</a> will<br>
show you a low profile mounting bracket. (Look at the big picture<br>
that shows the cables.)<br>
<br>
Another option might be something like eBay item 370779161625. This<br>
is a PCI-X (64-bit) card. A lot of PCI-X cards will plug into and<br>
work with a 32-bit PCI slot. If you don't like the RAID firmware on<br>
these, I've seem numerous forum articles on converting them from IR<br>
(integrated RAID) to IT (initiator target) firmware. Note that you'll<br>
need cables to break out the 4-port connectors on these cards to<br>
single SAS/SATA data cables for your drives.<br>
<br>
HTH<br>
<br>
- Aaron<br>
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