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SuperMicro AOC-USAS2-L8i 8-port SATA controller supported by the mps(4) driver in FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE onward. Uses multi-lane cables with either SFF-8087 connectors (for plugging directly into hot-swap backplanes) or SFF-8087 breakout cables (4x SATA connector on one end) for plugging directly into drives. Works beautifully with ZFS. And you get dedicated bandwidth to each drive (whereas an SAS expander/SATA PM splits bandwidth between multiple drives on a single channel).
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Thanks phoenix.
I had considered multilane too but between those, multipliers, expanders I was lost in a sea of choices. The Supermicro card looks good, I know from your previous posts that you're well used to storage setups so I'll take this as gospel advice! Do you have any experience with enclosures? The idea was that I would keep a few drives in the main desktop for "live" content and downloads, etc... with moving files I don't use that often to the main archive. This way I don't have to have every drive I own receiving power and spinning when the desktop is turned on. If that makes sense. Saving cost basically, hopefully! E.g.: Addonics Raid Tower IX A butt load of drives but only really used once a month or when needed to shuffle data around or when I drag it to a hackerspace/conference.
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