On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 19:29:34 +1100 Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I will not use SSDs with the card, so handling 8 HDDs should not be a > stretch for either one? Speaking of SSDs, handling *those* indeed will be a stretch, but for other reasons. These cards are finicky about enabling TRIM support: https://askubuntu.com/questions/416886/does-the-mpt2sas-driver-support-trim I have an LSI 9212-4i and it also does not pass-through TRIM with a few SSDs that I tried. -- With respect, Roman -- 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