Howdy, As some know, my inventory on hard drives is growing. I'm at about a dozen between main rig and backups. Most are 14TB or above. I was pestering ebay the other day and noticed there is a PCIe card that adds ports that is different. I had a 4 port one but just replaced it with a 10 port. It is a PCIe x1 card. It has the narrow connector. While looking around tho, I found a few cards that are PCIe x4. It has a wider connector. According to my google searches, PCIe x4 is faster than PCIe x1. It's why some cards are PCIe x8 or x16. I think video cards are usually x16. My question is, given the PCIe x4 card costs more, is it that much faster than a PCIe x1? I'm not driving the drives to the max or anything during normal use but when I use pvmove, it does pretty much max them out. I try to connect drives in a way that data moving from place to place takes the best path but sometimes the future surprises me.
Is it better to have PCIe x4 instead? Thanks for the info. Dale :-) :-) P. S. My drive list according to my notes. 2 16TBs, 3 14TBs, 1 10TB and 2 8TBs drive. I may have a couple smaller ones laying around somewhere. I'm pretty sure there is a 6TB lurking about somewhere.
