[SOLVED] Looking for sas pci controller not pci-e

[jlblair]

Hello all
I am intested in exploring raids but have only pci slots avail to run sas drives. Any advice would be appreciated into models etc. All searches online point to pci-e cards. I am not worried about speed but functionality.

Regards
Joe Blair

 

[kerberos_20]

the thing is, SAS was introduced in 2004 and PCIe is from 2003
before PCIe, for server market was more common to use PCI-X (higher clocked PCI)
so i guess u can find those too
as for PCI, it was too slow and still is, SAS 1.0 is 3Gbit while PCI 32bit is 1Gbit (2Gbit for 64bit PCI which is on server boards)
and one bad thing about PCI is, all PCI slots shared bandwith with eachother, which made it even worst

so available bandwith makes it already good enough reason to not make card for it

u can get more lucky with SCSI, its predecesor to SAS

 

[popatim]

Plain old PCI isn't fast enough for a SAS controller.
PCI has a max speed of 133MB/s several of my Harddrives can do 200 and the SSD's would fall aleep waiting for the PCI LoL