Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports
Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>I have this one for may be 7y already.
>>
>>08:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1068E
>>PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 08)
>>
>>https://wiki.pdl.cmu.edu/pub/OpenCloud/CloudManuals/SCG_LSISAS1068E_PB_040407.pdf
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>>It is 3Gb/s - don't know about the newer ones, but this one is working
>>perfectly well for all those years 24/7.
>
> That particular model is limited on supported disk sizes, to 2T IIRC -
> I bought one from ebay and it was no use at all.
>
I don't know. I stick to 2TB, because the WG RED >2TB are having issues.
> My own choice for more SATA/SAS ports is a Highpoint RocketRAID 2720 -
> 8 ports on a PCIe 2.0 x8 connector. Supported out of the box using the
> mvsas mainline driver.
I doubt that my demand will reach that point, having 6x2TB + 2x1TB drives in
RAID which makes around 7TB. I have still a lot of free space and another 4
empty slots to fill.
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