opentoe Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 I need to remove one of my 8 port cards and install a 12 or 16 port card. Anyone in particular using a 16 port JBOD card with no issues? I see the LSI SAS 9201 for $233 on Amazon that I would think "should" work, just looking for real world feedback. I did check the comparability wiki list. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 (edited) What about keeping the card and getting something like this Mike? EDIT: If @johnnie.black is using them, must work, what he doesn't know about drives isn't worth knowing.... Edited July 19, 2017 by CHBMB Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 5 minutes ago, CHBMB said: ... what he doesn't know about drives isn't worth knowing.... You are saying the Adaptec HBA1000-8i that I am using is worthless Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 1 minute ago, bonienl said: You are saying the Adaptec HBA1000-8i that I am using is worthless It's caused me some headaches with the DVB builds! Bloody dutchmen and their out of tree drivers! Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 22 minutes ago, opentoe said: I need to remove one of my 8 port cards and install a 12 or 16 port card. Anyone in particular using a 16 port JBOD card with no issues? I see the LSI SAS 9201 for $233 on Amazon that I would think "should" work, just looking for real world feedback. I did check the comparability wiki list. I have both an LSI SAS9201-16i and -16e. Both work great. The -16i is $180 on eBay. The -16e is about $50 on eBay. No flash needed. Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 1 minute ago, CHBMB said: It's caused me some headaches with the DVB builds! Bloody dutchmen and their out of tree drivers! Why the bloody English insist to have their own builds, is beyond me. Good news though. We tested the in-tree driver and all is working fine. You can continue your happy DVBing... Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 3 minutes ago, bonienl said: Why the bloody English insist to have their own builds, is beyond me. Good news though. We tested the in-tree driver and all is working fine. You can continue your happy DVBing... ROFL.... Quote Link to comment
opentoe Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 3 hours ago, bjp999 said: I have both an LSI SAS9201-16i and -16e. Both work great. The -16i is $180 on eBay. The -16e is about $50 on eBay. No flash needed. Wish I could get that 16e. All the connections are external on that card and I have a server case. I may drop and get the LSI SAS9201-16i. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
SSD Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 I did the same. But also had need for one external 5in3, and bought a -16e also. Too hard to pass up for a PCIe 2.0 x8 card for 16 drives for $50. Quote Link to comment
opentoe Posted July 21, 2017 Author Share Posted July 21, 2017 Stupid me. I should have known I have more PCI slots in my main board! I have 3 PCIEX16 slots and 2 PCIEX1 slots. Using the 2 PCIEX1 slots for 2 8 port controllers and using the PCIEX16_3 for the third and final 8 port controller. 24 port case, might as well use those ports. I also already had several Dell 310's in IT mode already. It is on the 10th hour doing a pre-clear. It says 175MB/sec. Just finish! Using that drive as my second parity and have another 8TB that's replacing an old 2TB. Quote Link to comment
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