just a quick one I have the Gigabyte GA7-PESH2 Motherboard which has the LSI-9211 SATA 3 on board SAS controller as well as another LSI Sata II controller onboard . I have used all the ports up on the 9211 and want to add more drives.
My question is this, As an Esxi host will there be much of a performance hit if I use the SATA II controller with the mechanical drives (No SSD) they wont be in RAID or anything just simple drives serving as datastores.
Reason I ask is that if a drive copies at 160MB/s roughly max then surely that is barely pushing SATA I territory never mind II or have I got this totally wrong and I will notice a considerable performance loss?
Drives are Seagate 2TB SATA drives if that helps
My question is this, As an Esxi host will there be much of a performance hit if I use the SATA II controller with the mechanical drives (No SSD) they wont be in RAID or anything just simple drives serving as datastores.
Reason I ask is that if a drive copies at 160MB/s roughly max then surely that is barely pushing SATA I territory never mind II or have I got this totally wrong and I will notice a considerable performance loss?
Drives are Seagate 2TB SATA drives if that helps