<html><head></head><body>Be certain to get raid capable sata drives! Home user and "green" drives throttle back and appear as a dropped drive.<br>
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That AOC will ONLY work in a supermicro system. The slot is PCIe but the components are on the wrong side. Allows for good cooling in a 1U system with 2 cards stacked, 1 normal on top and 1 AOC. The AOC slot is always in the same plane as the motherboard and faces up.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 28, 2015 7:57:31 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio@jdpfu.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">LSI bought 3Ware about 5 yrs ago.<br />There are quality, linux supported cards from SuperMicro too for<br />$120-ish. The ZFS folks love these:<br />* Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 Add-on Card, 8-Channel SAS/SATA Adapter<br /><br />$111 on Amazon today - add a $10 SAS-to-SATA conversion cable if you<br />want to use cheap drives.<br /><br />Throughput is great, I hear from highly reputable sources. My next NAS<br />build will get one of these cards.<br /><br />On 09/28/2015 07:43 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:14:06AM -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Valid point... I guess adding one more drive for RAID5 won't break the bank.<br /> haha! <br /><br /> LSI Logic 9270-8i....<br /> - Amazon: $565<b
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eBay: $160<br /></blockquote> <br /> I can't honestly speak for the LSI cards' robustness and Linux support, <br /> but another option is to go with a 3Ware card. Their Linux support is <br /> top-notch.<br /> <br /> For example, you can get a new 3Ware 9650SE-12ML for $70 on ebay, and <br /> that includes one breakout cable. Their newer 9690 and 9750 cards are <br /> better, especially if you're going full RAID6, but are more expensive.<br /> <br /> But if you're not going RAID5/6, using a fancy controller will buy you <br /> better manageability (and in the case of RAID1 you'll always be able to <br /> boot), at best the performance will be the same vs the onboard <br /> controller.<br /> <br /> (I've been using 3Ware cards for about 15 years now; a 9650SE-16ML is <br /> currently powering the system I'm sending this from. I've not had a <br /> single controller-related failure with these things))<br /> <br /> - Solomon<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><hr /><br /> Ale mailin
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