On 28/09/17 18:34, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
I read through the list and it seems to be the more common suggestion. It is old now (I see it mentioned a few years ago), and downloading the tools to flash it to IT mode recently became difficult (is there an official site?). Yet it is relatively cheap. So, is there another candidate for 8 way HBA for use with linux software raid? TIA
I got replies that suggest LSI (or equiv) 9211-8i or 9300-8i as good cards. The price difference is significant, so I wonder what I get for the extra money, especially as I plan to use it as a plain HBA (so no hwr raid, is this what the IT fw is?). For example, is the 9211 (older model?) likely to not work with a new mobo a year from now (I plan to upgrade)? Broadcom removed the 9211 from their site, is the 9207-8i the current replacement model? I will not use SSDs with the card, so handling 8 HDDs should not be a stretch for either one? TIA -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
