[ale] SATA PCI cards

[Jim Lynch]

If you want to play a bit, get a Cubieboard and use it.  It runs Wheezy 
quite well, has a sata controller onboard along with HDMI Ethernet (100) 
and USB.  Takes less than 2 amps at 5 volts and is just a bit bigger 
than a RPi. It has 1024G of RAM and can be configured to run from the 
SATA drive, using the SD card at boot time only.  I have one running a 
fairly intensive graphical program running on one.  There is a baseboard 
available that, among other things, gives you VGA output.

The board 
(https://www.miniand.com/products/Cubieboard%20Developer%20Board#buy) 
includes a SATA cable and a USB power cable.  All you need is the drive 
and a wallwart.   It's only $50.  And for an additional $10 you can get 
the cubieboard 2 with a faster (A20 vs A10) processor.

I have one of each and they both are pretty amazing.

Jim.


On 11/27/2013 05:55 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> Anyone have experience with the low cost PCI SATA cards on Newegg/Amazon
> (like the ones from Rosewill, Syba, etc.) on their linux boxes?  I think
> my Christmas present to myself is going to be a card and SATA drive to
> replace a dying IDE drive in my mail server.  I just want to do a single
> drive system so it's got to be bootable even on an old motherboard.
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