SAS hardware questions

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Personally, I recommend the lsi cards. Those things are tanks. The lsi 8i (8 internal) has been my friend for many years without fail. It does support jbod, so no raid, and I hooked a tape drive up to it too.

Tell me more about your tape drive though, I'm unhappy with mine and I'm looking to replace it

syaochan OP , 2 months ago

Sorry but I haven't got the tape drive yet. I found an HP lto-5 ultrium 3000 on ebay but I'm not sure if it's a good choice

scrubbles , 2 months ago

Feel free to ping me if you make the jump, I learned a lot about it. Biggest thing I can recommend is double triple make sure everything supports ltfs, it will make your life 1000% easier.

phanto , 2 months ago

What I know: https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/A_guide_to_mdadm
No need to do hardware raid, mdadm is great.
I got an HBA card off of art of server on eBay, and have ungodly amounts of disk. Also, am ungodly power bill...
You can stick regular SATA drives into a SAS Bay, but not SAS drives into a SATA bay.
Some HP equipment is bitchy about non -HP drives, cards, etc.
I saw a fair amount of "Do RAID 6!" But I found on my hardware that RAID 5 and a hot standby was moderately faster.
Try not to mix drive sizes, it messes things up and wastes space.
Have fun!

TCB13 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Yes the Dell H310 will work, but be around 40$. Other good options:

• Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8E LSI 9300-8i - should sell for around 40$
• Dell H200 IT - less expensive, like 25$

There are also other cards from less known brands, just search ebay or aliexpress for LSI 9211-8i or LSI 9207-8i.

syaochan OP , 2 months ago

I just found a dell h200 for 27€ shipping included on aliexpress.
It should be already flashed in IT mode, right? This screen pic is in the description:

https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/1905f636-52f7-46b7-a405-189ae3f9fc7e.webp