Hi,
I am playing with my sample NSC-400 mITX case with 4x hot swap and the possibility of up to 2x 2.5" SATA drives.
As I am looking to run an Atom board in it I need to add some more SATA ports to handle the 6 drives. The two boards I am looking at are the D2700MUD and the D2500CC (dual network ports) but both have PCI slots (oh why do you tease us so Intel). Both boards have mPCIe slots so I am looking at mPCIe -> dual sata cards to add two more and am investigating PCI SATA controllers but with the PCI slots max speed of 133MB/s, putting more than a couple of drives on it is going to heavily impact drive / motherboard throughput.
One thought occurred which was to use port multipliers to double up the motherboard sata or the mPCIe SATA. There is very little I have found that may be of much use though.
I could use the D2800MT with a PCIe slot and dual mPCIe card slots (1xfull and 1xhalf size) but that is another $25 or so on top. I could then add something like the Syba SY-PEX40008 (I have yet to read any reviews). That works out to be about $56 different from the D2500CC but will run all 6 drives.
Another option is using a Supermicro board with 6 sata but that is the previous gen D525.
Suggestions ?
Thanks
RB
I am playing with my sample NSC-400 mITX case with 4x hot swap and the possibility of up to 2x 2.5" SATA drives.
As I am looking to run an Atom board in it I need to add some more SATA ports to handle the 6 drives. The two boards I am looking at are the D2700MUD and the D2500CC (dual network ports) but both have PCI slots (oh why do you tease us so Intel). Both boards have mPCIe slots so I am looking at mPCIe -> dual sata cards to add two more and am investigating PCI SATA controllers but with the PCI slots max speed of 133MB/s, putting more than a couple of drives on it is going to heavily impact drive / motherboard throughput.
One thought occurred which was to use port multipliers to double up the motherboard sata or the mPCIe SATA. There is very little I have found that may be of much use though.
I could use the D2800MT with a PCIe slot and dual mPCIe card slots (1xfull and 1xhalf size) but that is another $25 or so on top. I could then add something like the Syba SY-PEX40008 (I have yet to read any reviews). That works out to be about $56 different from the D2500CC but will run all 6 drives.
Another option is using a Supermicro board with 6 sata but that is the previous gen D525.
Suggestions ?
Thanks
RB