delop...@gmail.com wrote: >> My research thus far: >> >> 1. LSI products are popular, but: >> >> a. Most seem to be PCIe x8. >> >> b. STFW I see more than a few posts complaining about changing >> firmware from RAID to non-RAID, buggy firmware releases, and/or >> motherboard BIOS/UEFI incompatibilities with the flash tools.
Yup. The story here is a major pain, in my experience. Add in the massive list of unclear vendor-branded cards and it's not something I could recommend, >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 > >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. 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. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.
