Re: add-in IDE and/or SATA card recommendations

  How do you guys feel about Highpoint?  Can anybody relate any personal 
experiences?

  NewEgg has
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115008
for my existing PATA drives...

  And I don't need hardware RAID, so I could consider
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816104006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Heron" <Ed-MBvgLuVkLo/[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:48 PM


>  Thanks for the suggestions.  I'll definitely check these out.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthew Barrick" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:42 PM
>
>
>> Steve Browne wrote:
>>> Matthew Barrick wrote:
>>>> Ed Heron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   So, I've got this Dell PowerEdge 2500 with SCSI hardware RAID and I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> have any interest in putting SCSI drives in it.  It doesn't have
>>>>> standard
>>>>> IDE or SATA interfaces, so I'm looking for some recommendations on 
>>>>> some
>>>>> relatively inexpensive IDE and SATA cards that Linux likes.
>>>>>
>>>>>   I've got a couple of IDE drives from other systems that I'd like to
>>>>> get
>>>>> some more use out of.
>>>>>
>>>>>   I'd like to add a couple of SATA drives because I'll be looking at
>>>>> using
>>>>> this machine as a media server.  (MythTV and similar).
>>>>>
>>>>>   The case has lots of drive bays and once I take out the SCSI
>>>>> backplane,
>>>>> there is access to the drives for power and data cable connection.
>>>>>
>>>>>   On a side note...  Anybody need any (3) ST318406LC drives?  Ultra3
>>>>> SCSI
>>>>> 10K 18GB
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Unless you need hardware raid, I strongly recommend
>>>> Supermicro 8-Port SATA Card - (DAC-SATA-MV8) see
>>>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/DAC-SATA-MV8.cfm
>>>> for details. I got a "OEM" version maybe 6 months ago for ~$100 that
>>>> came with normal and low profile brackets, and 8 high-quality cables.
>>>> These are the cards you often find in Supermicro NAS boxes, very high
>>>> quality, great linux support, never had trouble booting off them (even
>>>> with very old bios).
>>> That provides SATA ports. The Koutech IO-PSA421 provides (4) SATA II
>>> ports, $60.98 shipped, from this vendor:
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816104007
>>>
>>> ...If Ed is still interested.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm... hadn't noticed that. The cards I have must be a newer
>> revision/model, they definitely come up as 3.0Gb/s with NCQ and all
>> those fun TLAs. Must admit even if they didn't given the number of boxes
>> I deal with having a Supermicro part as opposed to Koutech or other
>> budget brand is reassuring. Though I recognize needs differ.

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