SATA PCIe Cards

Looks like a good 'un

Avago bought LSI in 2013 and in 2016 bought Broadcom. Then Avago renamed the company back to Broadcom. So they're the same LSI chips all along, it's not clear why you had problems with the 9207-8i and not the 9200-8i. The

But there's a lot of variability with firmware on enterprise kit, or maybe you just got a bad card. Anyhow it's a Proper HBA so is a much better option than the consumer stuff. The only thing to watch for is that the power consumption may be a bit higher.

Theo

The main thing for me is avoiding an earworm starting "Avago Joe, you've got to Avago...". Don't know if anybody here is old enough for that one?

That's the smaller brother of one of these, not using a PCIe switch chip. You're doing a 530MB/sec connection on a 500MB/sec lane, so it's in the "right ballpark of perfection". You could load it with eight 870EVO 2.5" SSD for example, if you wanted to do that. And would be unlikely to see a bottleneck by doing so.

So your card draws 7 watts. Which is ballpark for some motherboard Southbridge chips (with a heatsink on them).

Paul

Followed by "Put the money on the table, Mabel"?

That's the one :-)

A postscript that I happened upon an AM5 mobo with 8 SATA ports, the Asus PRIME B650M-A AX II:

Something I'll keep in mind for a future build...

Theo

The days when "Can I do you now, Sir?" would have the whole country rolling on the floor in laughter.