[Discuss] Many SATA drives

[mark at buttery.org (Shirley Márquez Dúlcey)]

On 4/1/2012 10:06 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>> Is there a way to get a non-RAID SATA
>> controller with 4 or more ports...
>
> Isn't this a commodity with hundreds to choose from?
>
> I've used several of these:
>
> Rosewill RC-209 PCI SATA Controller Card
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132006
>
> 4-port SATA controllers, but with a PCI interface it is long since
> obsolete. (Or maybe not. I see they have a current version that is
> likewise still PCI.)

I imagine that PCI cards are actually the ones in highest demand; mostly 
people are buying these to put SATA drives in old systems where the 
motherboard doesn't have SATA ports.