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
