Hey guys, is it ok if I use a LSI HBA card for Pcie 1x slot? My 16x slot is being used by my 8x NIC and my motherboard does not support difurcation. I planned to have two LSI HBA card on my two 1x PCIE slot, is it safe to have drives running on two LSI HBA card?
There will be bottlenecks? I have 7200 rpm drives, can I clarify, if each drives is 200 mb/s and PCIe 1x use 1gb/s. I will be good? The LSI HBA card is one SAS to 4 Sata, so 4 x 200 mb/s = 800 mb/s. I’m not sure if this is how it works.