Re: PCI Express 2.0 SATA 3 host bus adapter
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > 1. If you're buying enterprise RAID arrays, you should have matching disks
> > and firmware, and they must be in the vendor approved list. Best to get
> > them all from the same vendor.
>
> This is also true of quality PCIe RAID HBAs. LSI and Adaptec both
> publish compatibility lists for not only certified drives, but also
> storage enclosures, etc. Other RAID card vendors may do so as well, but
I just went over the compatibility list for the 9260-4i (SSD-ready SAS RAID
HBA), and it does list a lot of SATA devices, most of them enterprise SATA
disks. It even has a few non-enterprise drives there, such as the
Barracuda-XT, and also bog-standard SSDs from several vendors.
> I presented this information because the OP expressed a desire to
> purchase a real RAID card, specifically an LSI. I presented the
> information to help him avoid potential problems.
Very well. I was answering from a SATA3 HBA point of view, and you were
answering from a decent SAS RAID HBA point of view.
> > PS: I'd appreciate if you could list some of the HW RAID cards that are
> > doing disk blacklisting, that's something nice to know so that I avoid
> > buying one of them used for the home. I've seen HW RAID cards mark the HDD
...
> I'm not going to spend my time researching and compiling a list of
> current RAID cards, if any, that do this. The information I presented
Fair enough. I just asked in case you remembered some of them, I wouldn't
ask anyone to compile an exaustive list.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
Reply to: