SATA 3 Dumb Controller For 850 Pro

Misan

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Hi guys - I'm looking for a SATA 3 controller (doesn't need to do RAID) for a couple of 850 Pro's which I'll be using as an ESXi 6.5 datastore.

My board only has SATA 2 ports onboard, hence the requirement for a card. I'll be using a PCIe x16 2.0 slot, and need something to get the best performance for these drives.

I had a look at buying a cheap M1015 and flashing it to IT mode - however I've heard people have had a lot of issues with LSI cards and Samsung 840/850.

I came across a Syba SI-PEX40062 which seems to provide two PCIe lanes. Any other suggestions much appreciated!
 
Cheers BongoHunter - I'm gonna go with Syba SI-PEX40062 as it's based on the Marvell 88SE9235 chipset which provides two PCIe lanes, so should hopefully provide pretty decent performance.

Thanks once again.
 
Have you already got the 850 Pros? Otherwise, I'd suggest going down the M.2 route, with a £20 PCIe card you get full speed. You obviously can't boot off it, but for VMs it's perfect.
 
A 1TB NVMe drive was a little outside my budget - Managed to pickup a couple of 1TB 850 Pro's for cheap. Definitely something I'll be looking at for datastore usage down the line though.
 
Misan said:
A 1TB NVMe drive was a little outside my budget - Managed to pickup a couple of 1TB 850 Pro's for cheap. Definitely something I'll be looking at for datastore usage down the line though.
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Recently faced a similar dilemma myself for performant storage for some VMs - if you mobo supports PCIE bifurcation the Asus Hyper M2 x16 card is well worth a look, can add upto 4 NVME drives and can use RAID as well

Has let me get half terabyte volume up and running with 6k Mbps for £240. And I can add upto 2 more NVME drives whenever I like with the choice of performance, capacity or redundancy - very clever bit of kit
 
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