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EVGA SR-2 ESATA Jmicron JMB362 - Does it support Port Multiplier?

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blairnorman
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2014/10/07 15:32:52 (permalink)
Hi,
 
I have an EVGA SR-2 system. I also have Rosewill 8-Bay E-SATA hard drive enclosure, which is hooked up to an EVGA 780i SLI system with a pci express ESATA raid card/port multiplier, that came with the unit. See a link below to the device I am talking about.
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132016
 
Well, the cheapo card that came with it, I think is failing. My question is, can I hook my device straight to my 2 ESATA ports on my SR-2 and all 8 of my drives will be seen? Thank you for any help that can be offered on this topic!
 
Additionally, I have a software (windows mmc) mirror setup on all drives. there are a total of 8 4TB hard drives, 4 of which are used to mirror the other 4. The mirror was made using the disk management snap-in on the MMC console in Windows 7 64bit professional. My SR-2 is on Windows 8 64 Bit. If i plug in and power on on my SR-2 will it work, will it show my partitions normally. I understand that in MMC it may say "foreign disc", but can I just right click and hit import foreign disc, and then my SR-2 will sync my drives?
 
Thank you again for any help you guys can provide! 

My Build Log:
http://www.evga.com/forum...556&mpage=1#754556
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    micahhiggs
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    Re: EVGA SR-2 ESATA Jmicron JMB362 - Does it support Port Multiplier? 2014/10/08 15:57:06 (permalink)
    Sounds like it should work, I've never had much luck with raid and esata. Just to keep things safe I would use only four of the drives, and if it works then sync it with the other drives. I realize this make take an extra day, but that way it does not nuke your data right off the bat.
     
    Why don't you upgrade to a hardware raid card and SAS? Raid 6 would be just as reliable, and would net you more space, allow for expanding, and be way faster.

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    Re: EVGA SR-2 ESATA Jmicron JMB362 - Does it support Port Multiplier? 2014/10/26 02:12:39 (permalink)
    You need to check the manufacturer spec sheet for the JMicron chipset. If it supports PMPs only in CBS rather than FBS mode, the performance is going to be _terrible_.

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