On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 06:26:39 -0500 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I looked at something called ITX but they have only one PCIe slot > usually. That's not enough. I'd like to have two 6 or 8 port SATA > cards. Then balance the drives on each. I think some of the through > put is shared so the more drives on it, the slower it can be. I'd > like to have two such cards. 12 or 16 drives should be enough to last > a while. Part of me wants to do RAID but not sure about that. Yet. > I think I'm just going to go with ATX since it has several PCIe > slots. Usually, an ITX mainboard will feature a PCIe slot /and/ additional onboard SATA connectors. So you might be fine with an 8port controller card and the onboard connections. However, even if you want 16 SATA connections on one PCIe card, you can buy that. Broadcom SAS 9201-16i is one example. If that is enough bandwidth-wise will depend on your PCIe slot and the drives you're going to attach. I don't see any reason to do hardware raid these days, just a HBA and software raid (zfs or other solutions) should be fine. Everything just my 2ยข here, of course... cu Gerrit
