Ideas to add a ton of SATA HDs?

[OTS]

Anyone here know of a good SATAII Controller Cards to add to a system that only has PCI?

[lemonbrisk]

so you want to stick a bunch of 150-300MB/sec devices onto a PCI bus that supports a maximum shared 133MB/sec.... riiiiiiight

Promise SX4, if you must.

[Maynard]

Cheapest solution: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124020


Most SATA solution: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102075


Or you can just get a new motherboard, most Asus motherboards today have 4-8 SATA connections onboard plus 2 eSATA.

As for the post before this... I have an Asus with 7 SATA ports but I have more drives then that so I went with a controller and there isn't a whole lot of speed difference especially if you don't have the ram/cache for it. But I'd recommend just using drives on the controller for storage and not for game access or anything.

SATA controller on PCI is still a faster transfer rate then IDE.

[OTS]

Cheapest solution: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124020


Most SATA solution: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816102075


Or you can just get a new motherboard, most Asus motherboards today have 4-8 SATA connections onboard plus 2 eSATA.

As for the post before this... I have an Asus with 7 SATA ports but I have more drives then that so I went with a controller and there isn't a whole lot of speed difference especially if you don't have the ram/cache for it. But I'd recommend just using drives on the controller for storage and not for game access or anything.

SATA controller on PCI is still a faster transfer rate then IDE.

Thanks a bunch for the answers Maynard.

I'm just looking about 6 months forward so I can actually add it onto a new mobo when I get there instead of scrapping the controller card that I want to buy now.

[Maynard]

Ya, sorry about the 2nd link, I didn't realize that was a PCI-X card.

[OTS]

Its alright. Course it helped it was also $400. :rofl: