Syba SATA III 8 Port PCI-E 2.0 Controller Card, any good?

[Penelope Stopit]

Will someone kindly take a look at this SATA card for me and give an opinion?

Perhaps somebody is using one

Are Syba cards any good?

Thank you in advance

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syba-SI-PEX40071-SATA-Con...

[fuzzymonkey]

Never heard of them but it looks ok.
You would be best looking for a second hand lsi sas 9201 type of card in my opinion.

[Penelope Stopit]

fuzzymonkey said:

Never heard of them but it looks ok.
You would be best looking for a second hand lsi sas 9201 type of card in my opinion.

Thanks for the reply

Had to Google lsi sas 9201

Don't even know what it is

https://www.amazon.com/16-PORT-Int-6GB-Sata-Pcie/d...

[BigTZ4M]

I have the four port version in my Unraid server and it’s perfectly adequate for attaching drives to store my media.

[Penelope Stopit]

BigTZ4M said:

I have the four port version in my Unraid server and it’s perfectly adequate for attaching drives to store my media.

Thank you so much for this, if it's good enough for you it's good enough for me

Have a good day

[TonyRPH]

That looks very expensive for what it is.

You could buy a used HP P410i controller off Ebay for less, and have a proper (hardware) RAID controller (albeit not SATA 6G)

There are other controllers available that offer better value for money.

[Penelope Stopit]

TonyRPH said:

That looks very expensive for what it is.

You could buy a used HP P410i controller off Ebay for less, and have a proper (hardware) RAID controller (albeit not SATA 6G)

There are other controllers available that offer better value for money.

Hello Tony and thanks for your input

Still running a card that you included with the server case that you kindly gave me, everything is running really good now and have never since had problems with too much heat, those fans that you also donated work a treat

Will be stripping the case down in the near future to replace some dodgy HDD's, made a big mistake in fitting some old ones that soon developed errors including one that never really worked properly

While the PC is in bits have decided to buy and fit a faster SATA card

Please do post about anything better that I will be able to buy online

Was going to buy a Syba SI-PEX40071 SATA III 8 Port PCI-E 2.0 Controller Card,Green

£56.82

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syba-SI-PEX40071-SATA-Con...

Thank you in advance

[TonyRPH]

The LSI controllers are enterprise class and very good.

Chinese vendor, complete kit £33 (with cables)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-LSI-MegaRAID-9240-8...

UK vendor - similar kit £95 (with cables)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LSI-9211-8i-LSI00194-SA...

These controllers use a Mini SAS (8087) to SATA adapter like this

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cable-Matters-Internal-SF...

You can also get older generation controllers quite cheap like this one with 256mb cache for £20 (but no cables - see above)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Smart-Array-P410-013...

[Penelope Stopit]

Thanks for the info Tony

Should have mentioned that I didn't want anything with Hardware Raid, my apologies

Also only now realised that there could be a big problem in ordering anything due to the Corona virus

Will have a think

Keep well

[TonyRPH]

Penelope Stopit said:

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Should have mentioned that I didn't want anything with Hardware Raid

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In that case just buy this 6 port controller for £7.37

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6Gbps-Pci-Express-Pcie-...

Or this 8 port one for £19

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Desktop-PCI-E-to-SATA-3...

As far as I know, there are no issues with goods coming out of China at the moment - I've heard of people receiving things with no issues.

[Penelope Stopit]

Thanks for your time and info about china deliveries

Bailed me out once again

That's a great price

Will order the 8 Port, worth waiting for

Keep well