AGP Sata controller?

[cavemanoc]

Bit of an odd one this - are there such things as AGP Sata raid controllers?

I'm busy finalizing what will be my WHS machine and while I have 2 sata ports on the mobo that will do me fine for the moment, (2x2TB Samsungs) If/When I ever decided to upgrade further I would need to add a controller. The board has 2 spare Pci slots and an AGP - hence the question.

I could obviously use one of the PCI slots with a cheap controller (eithe pci or pci-x), but I want to at least max out the bandwidth on the Gigabit lan, which a standard pci slot won't do?

 

[Hxc]

Accelerated Graphics Port

I don't think so, sorry mate.

 

[rpstewart]

I could obviously use one of the PCI slots with a cheap controller (eithe pci or pci-x), but I want to at least max out the bandwidth on the Gigabit lan, which a standard pci slot won't do?

Gigabit Ethernet will give you 125MB/s minus overheads so probably 90-100MB/s tops. PCI should give you 133MB/s but if your LAN card is on PCI as well then you'll be sharing that 133MB/s between the LAN and the disks.

 

[cavemanoc]

It is unfortunately as the onboard lan is only 10/100 not megabit In real terms I probably won't notice much of a difference, but it's just a shame I can't make use of the spare agp port - oh well... Did they make any non-graphics cards for AGP? Can't say I've come across any.