<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Can anyone recommend (ideally from personal experience), a good quality, inexpensive 4 port SATA controller card? I don't need hardware RAID features as this will primarily be used, in addition to 4 onboard SATA ports, to build an 8 drive JBOD array.<div><br></div><div>Ideally something that works out of the box and has drivers within the Linux kernel.<br><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Simon</div><br><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dr. Simon Wells<br>===============<br><br>E-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">                </span><a href="mailto:siwells@gmail.com">siwells@gmail.com</a><br>IM:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">                </span><a href="mailto:sw3lls@yahoo.co.uk">sw3lls@yahoo.co.uk</a><br>Mail: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span>&nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span>University of Dundee,<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span>&nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span>Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation &amp; Expression,<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span>&nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span>Dow Street, Dundee, DD1 5EH, United Kingdom.<br>WWW: &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><a href="http://www.simonwells.org/">http://www.simonwells.org</a><br>Blog: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><a href="http://www.strangeaeons.org/">http://www.strangeaeons.org</a></div><div><a href="http://www.strangeaeons.org/"></a>GitHub:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span>&nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><a href="http://www.strangeaeons.org/">https://www.github.com/siwells</a></div><div>LinkedIn:<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span><a href="http://www.strangeaeons.org/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/siwells</a></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "></span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "></span>Phone: &nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">        </span>+44 (0)<br>Fax: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; ">                </span>+44 (0) &nbsp;(FAO: Simon Wells)<br><br>------BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----<br><br>------END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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