4 or 8-Port SATA Card Recommendation?

[topperdude]

Originally Posted by Savage1701

Yeah, it's like $25, has 2 external, 2 internal (your choice, 2 max at once) and an IDE connector I don't use and don't know if you can use with SATA. It uses JMicron controllers but the little critter rocks. It's given me less headaches than cards costing 30X as much.

Thanks for the info - Looks like it might be this one and not the one I posted in my last post. Unfortunately, this one has PCI-e interface whereas I was looking for one with the PCI interface. They do make a similar one with PCI interface but that has the VIA chipset and not JMicron. Oh well... thanks anyways!

-Topper

[stevech]

Originally Posted by PeteCress

I haven't gone there bc I'm clueless on the performance implications.

Also, the ones I've seen so far seem tb oriented towards serving external drives.

I understand that most eSATA multi-drive enclosures, with or without internal RAID, use port replicators. And I don't think there's a speed penality.

[Savage1701]

topper - that's the one. Love it for what it does.