Recent content by mskurnik

Thank you Patrick. I am going to go with Lost-Benji's suggestion and upgrade the system board with something else. That way I can use my existing Dell SAS HBA.

What about my idea on going from SAS to SATA? I see some converters on newegg and eBay. Or is it that there are no pci-x 2tb cards out there?

I purchased a used Supermicro AMD NAS/server with 16 SATA bays. It came with 2 PCI-X adaptec SATA RAID controllers for the backplanes. It has an H8DAE motherboard with only PCI-X and PCI slots onboard. I want to use this server with my Rackable/SGI SE3016 SAS extender so I need a...

I purchased a SE3016 from ebay last year but I rarely keep it on for more than a few hours as the PSU fan is rather loud. I've seen a few posts on the forums here about modifying the SE3016 power supply but I was wondering if there was a power supply I could purchase that would work with this...

Uggg. Well I ended up contacting the seller and he is replacing it with http://www.scsi4me.com/adaptec-asr-5445-8-port-4-internal-4-external-pcie-sas-raid-controller-1x-sff-8088-and-1x-sff-8087-connectors.html which has RAID levels 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50 and 60.

So the Dell 6GBPS SAS HBA does not support any type of RAID? I was looking for raid 0/1/5/10

As much as I dislike Dell I purchased the Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA. Thank you for your help.

Raid 1/5/10. I am perfectly fine with this being a software RAID.

Neither of those cards seem to have a high rating on Newegg. Can you suggest any others?

Will the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115108 card work?

Thank you!

I know the extenders support them but the RAID card for my server does not.

I purchased a SE3016 16-drive SAS Extender off of ebay and the LSI 8888ELP controller that came with it does not support 3TB drives. I was wondering what is the least expensive way to go for simple RAID support. This is going to be used as a media server in my house. I was thinking of the...