StarsLight Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Just a silly question about purpose of IT mode I heard many flashed raid card to IT mode. Should I do so if I will plan to buy RES2SV240NC to gain 24 SATA slot? Also does Dell H310 a better choice for my situation? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 11 minutes ago, StarsLight said: RES2SV240NC This is an expander, it needs to be connected to a controller to work (like the H310), and max ports are 16 or 20, with dual or single link. Quote Link to comment
StarsLight Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 23 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: This is an expander, it needs to be connected to a controller to work (like the H310), and max ports are 16 or 20, with dual or single link. sorry. I need to rephrase my question: "should I do so if I will plan to buy raid card (and then flash to IT mode) so that can work with RES2SV240NC to gain 24 SATA slot? " Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 The expander is transparent, with or without it, to work with unRAID most controllers need to be in IT mode. Quote Link to comment
StarsLight Posted March 6, 2017 Author Share Posted March 6, 2017 On 3/2/2017 at 11:48 PM, johnnie.black said: The expander is transparent, with or without it, to work with unRAID most controllers need to be in IT mode. So I have to get one raid card with IT mode in order to work with unRaid? any suggestion for the raid card? Quote Link to comment
ashman70 Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 An H310 flashed to IT mode should work fine Quote Link to comment
StarsLight Posted March 7, 2017 Author Share Posted March 7, 2017 16 hours ago, ashman70 said: An H310 flashed to IT mode should work fine Would someone explain the reason why we need flash the card to IT mode? Quote Link to comment
Fireball3 Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 Please have a look at this wiki entry. There is some basic info. A list of controllers known working with unRAID is here. The SAS2008 based controllers are doing well with unRAID. e.g. IBM M1015, M1115, Dell H310, H200, FSC D2607 Availabilities are depending on you location. . Quote Link to comment
StarsLight Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 Thanks all! I studies several day and knew we have to flash the raid card (e.g. H310) for unraid. But I cannot find any information of SAS expander flashed to IT mode, should I flash this as well? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 (edited) No need to flash the expander. Edited March 10, 2017 by johnnie.black Quote Link to comment
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