Re: [OT] 8-port AHCI SATA Controller?

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:17:23PM +0100, Sander wrote:
> > According to page 7 of the
> > "Serial ATA Advanced Host Controller Interface Revision 1.1"
> > (available at http://www.intel.com/technology/serialata/ahci.htm), AHCI
> > supports up to 32 ports.
>
> Hmm, that's a nice feature set.  Here is hoping everyone will consider
> switching to that, and that no one screws it up and makes a mostly but
> not quite compliant version.
>
> > For example, Silicon Image 3124 also looks good on paper, but only
> > supports up to 4 ports.
> >
> > Yeah, I know, but because of their real 'hardware' raid, these cards are
> > three times more expensive per port. And I just need JBOD.
>
> Really?  How much does a 24 port areca card cost?  Is it 12 times the
> cost of a two port promise card?

about $1400 for pci-x or $1900 pci-express.

you might try the promise sataII-150 sx8 which is 8 ports per card and is 
about $200

> I haven't looked at the prices lately.

The jump to a full-on sata raid controller is pretty steep.

> Len Sorensen
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