Steve McIntyre wrote: >>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. >
I don't know. I stick to 2TB, because the WG RED >2TB are having issues. > 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. I doubt that my demand will reach that point, having 6x2TB + 2x1TB drives in RAID which makes around 7TB. I have still a lot of free space and another 4 empty slots to fill.