[OpenIndiana-discuss] Can anyone recommend an external SATA card?

[Robin Axelsson]

Unfortunately I don't know the UK market but I'm not impressed by the 
prices scan.co.uk have on their HBA cards after looking into their page. 
You could also look at the" esata-4-8-port..." section as there are a 
few more viable alternatives. From this list an LSI based 8-port card is 
cheaper than a 4-port card. If I were to buy from this seller I would go 
for the SASUC8I card (search it on the website). There must be some kind 
of a price comparison website where you live, no? Since you want to go 
for internal cards here's a list of them you can search for:

LSI SAS 3041E-R
LSI SAS 3081E-R
LSI-SAS 9211-4i
LSI-SAS 9211-8i
LSI-SAS 9201-16i

Cisco LSI SAS 30813ER SAS SATA RAID
Cisco LSI 1064E SAS

Dell PERC 5i/6i

Intel SASUC8I
Intel SASMF8I
Intel SASWT4I

Fujitsu-Siemens S26361-F3257-L8
Fujitsu-Siemens S26361-F3257-L4

Also keep in mind that when getting a SAS card you will need a SAS-> 
SATA fan out cable, (unless there are other for you relevant options for 
connecting SATA drives to SAS HBA which I'm not aware of). It looks like 
this:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/3ware-cbl-sff8087ocf-10m-sff-8087-to-discrete-forward-breakout-cable

or this

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/highpoint-int-ms-1m4s-internal-mini-sas-to-sata-cable

On some HBAs these cables are included but not all of them, especially 
the cheaper ones. If you want to use a standard issue E-SATA bracket you 
are also likely to need a male -> female SATA adapter to connect it with 
the fan out cable.



On 2011-01-20 22:08, Michelle Knight wrote:
>> Thanks Greg,
>>
>> I had written off the previous suggestions of using e-sata interfaces,
>> because the motherboard sata ports are already fully used.
>>
>> I hadn't thought of using such interfaces on a PCI-E card. That's actually a
>> great idea.
>>
>> Michelle.
> I've managed to get a couple of these...
> http://www.scan.co.uk/products/akasa-esata-45-ex-internal-sata-to-external-
> esata-pci-backplate-adaptor
>
> Hopefully they'll do the job.
>
> All I need now is a card. The problem with many that I'm finding listed, don't
> actually list what chipset they are based on, so I'm fishing in the dark.
>
> Anything in this list sound familiar?
>
> http://www.scan.co.uk/Shop/Computer-Hardware/All/HDD-Controllers/SATA-SAS-
> eSATA-2-4-Port
>
> Michelle.
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