After having a play with ZFS on a couple of HP microservers I'm now looking at switching my main Dell T320 across.
It has 8 SATA bays with the Dell H710P (effectively a LSI MegaRAID SAS 9266-8i) supported by the mfii driver. Its a nice RAID controller with battery backed cache and all the other RAID goodies which get in the way of a good ZFS setup :), and does not support pass through mode (only exposing each drive as RAID0). I can theoretically flash LSI firmware, but that seems to be a little fraught and I'd still be left with the unwanted battery backed cache (I'd prefer to have an SSD for the ZFS ZIL) So I'd like to replace it with something more suitable - In the LSI/mfii arena: The 3008 based LSI cards (LSI 9340-8i or IBM M1215) seem quite nice, though I'd probably need a cable adaptor for the ports. Or I could step back to a 2008 card like the LSI SAS 9211-8i and not worry about cables. Does anyone know if NetBSD supports 2308 based cards like the LSI SAS 9207-8i - that seems to be the best option still keeping a SFF-8087 connector. Alternatively maybe something non LSI based? What do people think? Thanks David
