what sata card should I buy

[brizou]

Hello everybody I have some problems for a couple of weeks with the sata ports on my motherboard so I would like to buy a pci-e card to do the job, i need 8 sata ports and under 100€ delivered
I found some cards on ebay
what do you think about
- IBM M1015 which seem to run a lsi SAS9220-8i chipset
- Perc 5i

Do you think those card would be fine for zfs with 2To HDDs (and maybe more later)

Or if you have some recommandations

 

[b1ghen]

The M1015 is a popular choice, remember to budget in the special SAS to SATA multilane cables needed as well.
And to flash it with IT firmware.

 

[brizou]

Ok thanks, i will look into it

 

[weeniewawa]

I have used this card and it works great with FreeNAS and much cheaper than the ones you have found on Ebay

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NJMRPS/?tag=ozlp-20


and here is a great source for cables

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10254&cs_id=1025410&p_id=8189&seq=1&format=2

 

[brizou]

I have used this card and it works great with FreeNAS and much cheaper than the ones you have found on Ebay

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NJMRPS/?tag=ozlp-20


and here is a great source for cables

http://www.monoprice.com/products/p...=10254&cs_id=1025410&p_id=8189&seq=1&format=2

I found a M1015 on ebay for 60€ so i went for it, i will flash it with IT firmware

 

[weeniewawa]

good deal

all I saw were those cards for $300+ US

 

[brizou]

weird I bought mine in France but I saw a lot from us sellers who sold them for 120$US