Need advice on SATA cards

[Livesundersink]

I'm looking at buying a 16 sata port pci-e card for my server and have found 2 options on amazon

 

https://amzn.asia/d/j42YwUv

 

https://amzn.asia/d/1c1rMwB

 

I was wondering if anyone as used either of these and what their experience was like, and if anyone can recommend something else instead.

[Blue4130]

1 hour ago, Livesundersink said:

I'm looking at buying a 16 sata port pci-e card for my server and have found 2 options on amazon

 

https://amzn.asia/d/j42YwUv

 

https://amzn.asia/d/1c1rMwB

 

I was wondering if anyone as used either of these and what their experience was like, and if anyone can recommend something else instead.

I'd personally go with an lsi card like a 9211 or similar. 

[Pickles von Brine]

Instead of something like that, why not use a SAS HBA or raid card converted to an HBA?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/132059261390?hash=item1ebf5869ce:g:ezYAAOSwA~pdHbkM
Each port does 4 SATA connections with breakout cables
https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Internal-SFF-8087-Breakout/dp/B012BPLYJC

You will have better performance and support using something like that. 

If you need something newer then this will do:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/165522543628?epid=1637376921&hash=item2689e9940c:g:U2IAAOSwXUlioA5F

[mariushm]

The cards you link to  are kinda bad.... they use port multipliers to convert one sata port to 5 sata ports .. so up to 5 drives share the bandwidth of a single sata port.

 

If you don't mind being SATA2 ports (3 gbps / 300 MB/s max ), you have this proper 16 port card at $122 : https://unixsurplus.com/areca-arc-1260-raid-controller/

 

Much more reliable and safer, and the card also supports various hardware RAID modes, besides JBOD.

 

[Livesundersink]

On 8/8/2022 at 12:22 AM, Blue4130 said:

I'd personally go with an lsi card like a 9211 or similar. 

I did some more poking around and found someone who had bought a few 9211 cards and even had linked to some on ebay, they reported back a few weeks later saying all was good and to recommend the cards to anyone else, I'm now just waiting on a set of breakout cables.