SAS Ports with Gigabyte

I'm looking to use this

[h=1]HighPoint Rocket 2722 External 8-Port PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS/SATA Non-RAID Controller[/h]http://www.amazon.co.uk/HighPoint-Rocket-2722-PCI-Express-Controller/dp/B007F9VP3A/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1401883710&sr=8-7&keywords=sas+port+external


with this

[h=1]GIGABYTE Z97X-UD7-TH Intel LGA1150 Z97 Thunderbolt ATX Motherboard[/h]http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KCZU89Q/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1




Using it for CODEX based film shoot.


I would appreciate any feedback on anyone who has done something similar..

I have not personally but if it helps at all I was recently on a job where a buddy of mine ran one of the Atto cards in his magma t-bolt box for the dual drive codex reader. This was used in conjunction with the new mac pro.

the atto cards are here: http://www.attotech.com/products/category.php?id=1&catid=3

I think that it had no more than 4 ports on it so it must have been a PCIe 2.0 card according to the info on that site.

Don't know that it helps you much but maybe a little?

did you end up getting one of these card?

which did you go with and what was the install process?

I have a bunch of highpoint cards in varying builds they work great. In particular I have this 2720SGL in a Z77 GA board running 10.8.5 just fine and had a 2722 running on Z77 GA board running Mavericks on a server machine.