SAS9211-8I 8PORT Int 6GB Sata+sas Pcie 2.0

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LSI 9211-8I – STORAGE CONTROLLER – DISK ARRAY (RAID);HARD DRIVE;TAPE DRIVE – SERIAL9211-8I – STORAGE CONTROLLER – DISK ARRAY (RAID);HARD DRIVE;TAPE DRIVE – SERIALATTACHED SCSI; SERIAL ATA-300 – 6 GBPS – RAID 0;RAID 1;RAID 10;RAID 1E Manufacturer : LSI UPC : 830343006717

$ 227.94


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  1. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Excellent Product, September 27, 2011
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    Bacon –

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    Blazing, compatible with Linux >= ~2.6.30. With 8 Vertex 2’s in a Linux software raid10, I’m getting sequential read speeds _averaging_ 1.5 GIGABYTES a second, write speeds around 600MB/s. A test raid0 made me double take with read speeds > 2GB/s and writes about 1.3GB/s. I have used these as storage swiss army knives. Wherever I have controller issues, drop one in. I have also used a number of the 16 port controllers of the same model with similar results. As a bonus, optical drives work too. Highly recommended.

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  2. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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    Speed and compatability., September 10, 2011
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    Andy Oxenreider –
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    I can’t really rate this one highly enough. While playing with ZFS on Linux, all the flaws in my storage subsystem (8x2TB Seagate LP drives in a port multiplier chassis, all going back to an i7-920 fileserver) really were shown up. Read speeds barely cracking 50MB/sec were the norm. Tests with md didn’t show much better, so it was obviously time for an improved storage adapter setup.

    Migrating from the port multipliers to this card got double the speed, even with relatively slow drives. Going for more, moving from a x4 slot to using half an x16 slot (both PCIe 2.0) got me a huge boost. ZFS scrubs (showing off mostly read performance) now top 450MB/sec, even with the relatively slow, low power drives. Couldn’t be happier with the performance, really. Install was a plug and play affair on Fedora 14, no fuss at all. It’s also worth noting that my (accidental) downmoding of the card to x4 had no other ill effects, and it worked fine, as it should.

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  3. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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    Love these, February 8, 2012
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    Jdoe (Central Valley, CA) –

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    Bought 3 for a norco esxi/oi/napp-it home setup. mobo is a p8b ws. passthrough worked with no issues on all 3. oi sees all drives on all cards

    Only minor annoyance I had was updating the firmware. oi/napp-it work best with IT firmware (because IT firmware disables raid mode on the card). These come with IR firmware. You cant simply overwrite IR firmware with IT firmware. You have to erase the IR firmware first, then install the IT firmware. This process can only be done using the DOS method. I went through 3 mobo’s my house before I finally found one that would let me use the sas2flsh.exe in dos boot environment. The newer mobos are not compatible with this tool for whatever reason.

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