Syba 8 Port SATA III Non-RAID PCI-e x4 Expansion Card Supports FreeNAS and ZFS RAID - Includes Mini SAS to SATA Breack Out Cables (SI-PEX40137)
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It's possible that the cable is the source of the problem. If the problem persists, try swapping the cable from the working to the failing port.
Yes. Due to the fact that it is a non-profit organization, You can use it as a boot drive if you have a raid card.
It's a SATA card, not a PCIe card.
No, only SATA is supported.
Selected User Reviews For Syba 8 Port SATA III Non-RAID PCI-e x4 Expansion Card Supports FreeNAS and ZFS RAID - Includes Mini SAS to SATA Breack Out Cables (SI-PEX40137)
1. br>1. Run the CSM blob and load the bios OptionROMs (to boot from the card's drives)br>2. Then there are the numerous issues that have been reported with these cards. br>br>Use these for storage only and boot from a separate drivebr>br>Then there are the numerous issues that have been reported with these cards. br>Basically, you need to disable IOMMU (either on the kernel command line with iommu=off or in your BIOS/UEFI screen) to get these to work correctly. br>br>Enabling Virtualization extensions and IOMMU will cause this card to crash due to DMA errors; without IOMMU, it will work fine. br>br> The 88SE9215 chip used as a SATA controller in these cards only supports PCI-E, so the "e x4" support is misleading. (as stated in the datasheet) e x1 link speeds So, if you're thinking (as I was) of grabbing this and setting up a sweet 8 drive SSD ZFS pool, you'd be better off using your on-premises storage instead. Using a board controller or regular hard drives is a viable option. br>br>I've tried them out on Linux kernel versions 4 and 5. 19, 5. 4 5. 7 and 5. They appear to work oob with the standard ahci driver (minus the IOMMU tweak above), and surprisingly, this card appears to work with macOS (10. 7) without any problems. br>br>For the price, I'd say it saved me from having to return it for a more expensive LSI card, and it works. I just wish I could enable IOMMU so that I could use it with ZFS ZVOLs, KVM, and hardware passthrubr>br>tl; If you want to boot from drives on the controller, turn off IOMMU if CPU virtualization is enabled and enable the OptionROM loading option.
09/15/2019 The driver disk that came with the product was confusing because it included a lot of drivers that didn't have anything to do with this product. The Marvel/92XX driver is the one that this SI-92XX needs. My attempts at cable management were hampered by the fact that the included sata cables do not play nice in the cabinet space behind the motherboard; they are stiff, and closing my computer case was difficult because these cable bundles do not want to lay flat. 1903 18362 is the version of Windows 10 that has been released. Once you've connected the sata cables to the card and drives, the 356 will take a long time to boot up. The manufacturer and vendor provide no information about the 10 leds that light up on the card; on my card, only 9 of them light up, and I'm not sure why the tenth one doesn't. Due to the limited number of sata cables/drives that can be connected. What are the meanings of the other two leds? Aside from that, I've had no issues reading or writing data to my eight SATA drives.
Yes, this is a PCI Express 2 card from the second generation. Yes, you can use a PCIe 16 card slot with a 0 card. That's fine; the question now is why does that make sense. Because on my FreeNAS 11, I don't need a graphics card. 3 motherboard, booted FreeNAS, and the card and its drives were instantly recognized. My MB? The Gigabyte B250 has a 4th generation Intel I7 processor and 32 MB of RAM. Things that were laying around are now consuming electrons and providing a nice home server that has been performing admirably on RaidZ2 4 1 ZFS is one of my favorite programs. Marvell's HBA cards have been chastised for not being able to communicate with FreeNAS. It was worthwhile to try Syba's card. It's something you should give a shot as well.
For use in my Haswell-based FreeNAS server, I purchased a port SATA expansion card. Unlike other cards I've tried, all eight ports are fully functional with FreeNAS. br>br>From mirrored disks, I'm getting 90-100MB/sec transfers, implying that the card can saturate my gigabit ethernet connection. br>br>The cables are extremely long, but they are also extremely thin, flexible, and easy to manipulate. br>br>I'm so happy with this card that I just ordered a second for a backup FreeNAS unit, and it's now listed as "unavailable. " " I'm hoping this is only temporary for the sake of the FreeNAS community. ".
This product is designed to be used in a home server. The operating system has been installed on the computer. board M. 256GB Samsung SM951 NVMe in two slots. Server 2019 has been completely updated. In the pci-e slot, the card has been installed. A Gigabyte UEFI motherboard's x16 slot was used to connect eight pre-installed graphics cards. Dell enterprise hard drive that has been formatted When I turned on the computer, it recognized all of my drives and I didn't have to install any drivers. With ATTO, a single drive benchmark of 175 to 190 MB sustained read/write (16GB file size, default settings) was achieved. It's worth noting that the hard drives' spec sheets list the sustained speeds in the same order as they were tested. Marvel drivers were installed using the included CD. The read/write performance of the drive was retested, and the results were the same. Read/write performance (as measured by the pool) is unchanged with pooled drives using Stablebit Drivepool. I initially connected six drives and ran the benchmarks before installing this hardware for comparison purposes, and the performance of this device matched the onboard SATA 3 ports. Because I wanted to use eight drives and have them all connected to the same interface, I chose this card over the onboard option. DAT Optic (3) 5. Drives mounted in two DAT Optic (3) from 25 to 5 high-definition (HDD) hot-swap drives the enclosures are swapped In under 20 seconds, the system boots to the login screen. I'm satisfied so far.
On Server 2019, I used this to pool drives with Drive Bender. Everything works as expected after you install the driver from the included mini CD. Depending on the chassis you have, The included SATA cable may not be long enough to reach all of the drives due to the drive bay layout.
This is more time consuming than using the on-board computer. I wanted a card that would let me connect and get SATA 3 speeds from multiple SSDs without having to use the motherboard's SATA 2 connectors, but this card is SLOWER than the motherboard's on-board SATA 2 connectors. When using more than one drive, use the SATA 2 connectors on the board.
I built a new TrueNAS server from the ground up using a non-standard hardware configuration. Additional connections for all of the drives were required on the server motherboard. So far, I've been able to install 12 drives using this method. TrueNAS recognized all of the drives without requiring them to be re-installed. br>There is no need to flash the card or install additional drivers.
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