would 2 of the 9201 16i cards : http://www.scan.co.uk/products/16-port-lsi-sas-9201-16i-sgl-6gb-s-sata-plus-sas-pcie-20-controller
work, in your opinion? On 8 October 2013 15:45, Jonathan Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > we have 6 backplanes with 4 drives each already mounted inside a 4U server > chassis, each backplane has 1 mini-SAS (SFF-8087) adapter. > > I need a controller card that has 6 mini-SAS internal ports on it to > replace the HighPoint card. > > Any suggestions would be great! > > Jon > > > On 8 October 2013 15:39, Dan McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 03:31:03PM +0100, Jonathan Adams wrote: >> > I've found the LSI MegaRAID 9280 24i4e (since we currently have 6 >> backplane >> > boards, of 4 drives each, this would probably do) >> > >> > about £1000, so only 20% more ... but do you know if such a board will >> do >> > JBOD? >> >> Such a board will not. It has the 2108 chipset, which is mr_sas. The >> only >> mr_sas-driven board I know that does JBOD is the low-end ones based on the >> 2008 chipset with the "skinny" firmware. In *theory* other chipsets >> could do >> raid, but LSI really likes their HW raid. :( >> >> Find something based on the 2308 chipset that uses "Fusion MPI 2.0". The >> 920x boards from LSI would probably fit the bill here. >> >> Dan >> >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> illumos-discuss >> Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now >> RSS Feed: >> https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/23508059-3f15f76a >> Modify Your Subscription: >> https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; >> Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com >> > > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
