[ale] RAID card for home use?

[Jim Kinney]

Be certain to get raid capable sata drives! Home user and "green" drives throttle back and appear as a dropped drive.

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.

On September 28, 2015 7:57:31 AM EDT, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
>LSI bought 3Ware about 5 yrs ago.
>There are quality, linux supported cards from SuperMicro too for
>$120-ish.  The ZFS folks love these:
>* Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 Add-on Card, 8-Channel SAS/SATA Adapter
>
>$111 on Amazon today - add a $10 SAS-to-SATA conversion cable if you
>want to use cheap drives.
>
>Throughput is great, I hear from highly reputable sources.  My next NAS
>build will get one of these cards.
>
>On 09/28/2015 07:43 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:14:06AM -0400, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:
>>> Valid point... I guess adding one more drive for RAID5 won't break
>the bank.
>>> haha!  
>>>
>>> LSI Logic 9270-8i....
>>> - Amazon: $565
>>> - eBay: $160
>> 
>> I can't honestly speak for the LSI cards' robustness and Linux
>support, 
>> but another option is to go with a 3Ware card.  Their Linux support
>is 
>> top-notch.
>> 
>> For example, you can get a new 3Ware 9650SE-12ML for $70 on ebay, and
>
>> that includes one breakout cable. Their newer 9690 and 9750 cards are
>
>> better, especially if you're going full RAID6, but are more
>expensive.
>> 
>> But if you're not going RAID5/6, using a fancy controller will buy
>you 
>> better manageability (and in the case of RAID1 you'll always be able
>to 
>> boot), at best the performance will be the same vs the onboard 
>> controller.
>> 
>> (I've been using 3Ware cards for about 15 years now; a 9650SE-16ML is
>
>>  currently powering the system I'm sending this from.  I've not had a
>
>>  single controller-related failure with these things))
>> 
>>  - Solomon
>> 
>> 
>> 
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