On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
I will not use SSDs with the card, so handling 8 HDDs should not be a stretch for either one?
I know people who use 9211-8i with 36 drives via SAS expanders. With HDDs, this isn't typically a problem, it's mostly a bandwidth problem than IOPS problem.
If I were to deploy an 8 drive machine, 9211-8i or cards with similar LSI 2008 chips, would be my first choice (since it's cheap and is widely used).
There has been some firmware trouble with it. I believe P20 had trouble. P19 seems to work fine.
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