Hi Guys,
So I am rounding the finishing point for my NAS and my 2 4Tb drives arrived a few weeks back. I finally tried to get them installed in my NAS box only realize I had forgotten about the danged 2Tb barrier, so the 12 port SATA card I bought from ebay is more or less useless for what I want to do.
My plan is ultimately to have 4x4Tb drives and 4x1Tb drives in the thing, giving me a total of 10Tb mirrored (2x RAID 10 arrays).
So does anyone have an suggestions on an affordable SATA card that will work with 4Tb drives? I am hoping to get something with at least 4 ports, but 8 or 12 would be better. Obviously I don't care about RAID support on the card itself, and it would need to be PCI-X or regular PCI (though I think there might be a PCIe x8 slot in the server, I don't recall atm).
If I have to, I can switch out the box for something a little more desktop oriented, so I could put multiple PCI cards into it. At this point I'll take anything that will do 4Tb+ drives.
So I am rounding the finishing point for my NAS and my 2 4Tb drives arrived a few weeks back. I finally tried to get them installed in my NAS box only realize I had forgotten about the danged 2Tb barrier, so the 12 port SATA card I bought from ebay is more or less useless for what I want to do.
My plan is ultimately to have 4x4Tb drives and 4x1Tb drives in the thing, giving me a total of 10Tb mirrored (2x RAID 10 arrays).
So does anyone have an suggestions on an affordable SATA card that will work with 4Tb drives? I am hoping to get something with at least 4 ports, but 8 or 12 would be better. Obviously I don't care about RAID support on the card itself, and it would need to be PCI-X or regular PCI (though I think there might be a PCIe x8 slot in the server, I don't recall atm).
If I have to, I can switch out the box for something a little more desktop oriented, so I could put multiple PCI cards into it. At this point I'll take anything that will do 4Tb+ drives.