Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

On Mi, 12 feb 20, 23:39:20, deloptes wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Could you please elaborate or provide a reference for this? > > > > While my 3TB WD Red doesn't appear to have problems with my current > > usage, I'd like to be prepared. > > Google "western digital wd red 4tb issues" or

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

David Christensen wrote: > Lately, I have been buying 3 TB Seagate Constellation ES.2.  One pair > has close to 1 year of 24x7 use.  No problems thus far. 1y is not a measure. What counts is 4+ at least.

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Could you please elaborate or provide a reference for this? > > While my 3TB WD Red doesn't appear to have problems with my current > usage, I'd like to be prepared. Google "western digital wd red 4tb issues" or "western digital wd red 3tb issues" As drives were getting

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

On 2020-02-11 14:04, deloptes wrote: I stick to 2TB, because the WG RED >2TB are having issues. Lately, I have been buying 3 TB Seagate Constellation ES.2. One pair has close to 1 year of 24x7 use. No problems thus far. David

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

On 2020-02-11 07:21, Steve McIntyre wrote: delop...@gmail.com wrote: 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 That particular model is limited on su

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

Looking at Wikipedia, PCI Express link performance table: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#History_and_revisions I believe 2.5 GT/s produces 2.5 Gb/s under PCIe version 1.0. So, the Syba specification is correct in this case. They apparently conflated "GT/sec" and "Gb/sec" (uhh, "co

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

On Ma, 11 feb 20, 23:04:47, deloptes wrote: > > I don't know. I stick to 2TB, because the WG RED >2TB are having issues. Could you please elaborate or provide a reference for this? While my 3TB WD Red doesn't appear to have problems with my current usage, I'd like to be prepared. Kind regards,

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

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 t

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

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/UE

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

On Feb 10, 2020, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-02-10 13:55, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On Feb 10, 2020, David Christensen wrote: >>> [...] >>> It has the following expansion slots: >>> >>> - One PCI Express 2.0 x16 add-in card connector >>> - One PCI Express 2.0 x4 add-in card connector >>> - One

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

deloptes wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > > Thanks for the data point. > > > > > > Did you have to do anything with firmware? > > not at all - driver in the kernel is mature - but again it is 3Gb/s per > port. > > Honestly I must look inside the server as I do not remember how it is > c

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

David Christensen wrote: > Thanks for the data point. > > > Did you have to do anything with firmware? not at all - driver in the kernel is mature - but again it is 3Gb/s per port. Honestly I must look inside the server as I do not remember how it is connected. I have 12 disk bay. It could be

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

David Christensen composed on 2020-02-10 16:41 (UTC-0800): > I am using another Syba SD-SA2PEX-2IR card in one of my computers with a > pair of Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5 TB drives. I used Seagate SeaTools > Bootable to erase both. The erase seemed to proceed okay. One drive > was visibly fast

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

On 2020-02-10 14:28, deloptes 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 t

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

On 2020-02-10 13:55, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 10, 2020, David Christensen wrote: [...] It has the following expansion slots: - One PCI Express 2.0 x16 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x4 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x1 add-in card connector a. While migrating b

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

> 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 fla

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

David Christensen composed on 2020-02-10 13:23 (UTC-0800): > Comments? Have you considered incorporating newer (nvme) technology? e.g. Whether compatible with the Q67 chipset I don't know, but it

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

On Feb 10, 2020, David Christensen wrote: > [...] > It has the following expansion slots: > > - One PCI Express 2.0 x16 add-in card connector > - One PCI Express 2.0 x4 add-in card connector > - One PCI Express 2.0 x1 add-in card connector > > a. While migrating backup data, I recently saw a

Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

debian-user: I have a system with an Intel DQ67SW desktop board: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/motherboards/desktop/dq67sw/dq67sw_techprodspec02.pdf It has the following expansion slots: - One PCI Express 2.0 x16 add-in card connector - One PCI Express 2.0 x4 add