I'm looking for a good (fast) PCI-E SATA controller - with 4 or 5 internal SATA ports that will enable me to set up a RAID 5 or JBOD array. Can anybody suggest one I should look at?
Because I don't have enough Sata connections to connect raid array of 3-4 drives as well as O/S drive, scratch drive, optical drives, etc. Is there a convenient way to expand/multiply the number of Sata connections that would still enable me to use the onboard controller?
Thanks, yeah - I've used all 9 ports. I was leaning towards an Addonics port multiplier (system version): 5-Port HPM-XA from Addonics
It has built in hardware Raid, which I believe is faster than software raid. What do you think?