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    Suggestions for a 16 drive 6 Gb/s SAS card.

    Thanks for all the replies. So my requirements aren't exactly that I need a 16 port HBA, but rather I need to be able to connect my 24 bays to my motherboard (ASUS KGPE-D16) I have a AOC-USAS2-L8i (sas2008 based hba) so that means I have 16 ports to fill. I was filling those by connecting my...
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    Suggestions for a 16 drive 6 Gb/s SAS card.

    Another option I suppose would be to pick up 2 more of the sas2008 cards for the same effect. assuming they would fit on my mobo.
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    Suggestions for a 16 drive 6 Gb/s SAS card.

    Thanks for the reply. I actually purchased the 9201-16i but am in the process of returning because the per port bandwidth is lower then the 2740. I was using this resource as a reference for that info: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10 is the lsi hardware significantly better then the highpoint...
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    Suggestions for a 16 drive 6 Gb/s SAS card.

    I'm looking for suggestions for a fast SAS HBA that supports at least 16 drives (4 ports). I currently have the HighPoint 2740 which is a card as described and provides good speed. But the unit I got has two ports that operate very slow (3-5 Mb/s) which means I need to return it and either...
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    Onboard SATA III vs HBA card for 6Gb/s drives

    Yikes I missed some of these posts I guess, sorry about that guys. As an update on my end. I have things up and running under Ubuntu using md raid6 and the 8 new 2tb drives. Things have been going great so far, I got all my data moved over and I've been stress testing the server. Network...
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    Onboard SATA III vs HBA card for 6Gb/s drives

    I've made some discoveries since my last post, thought I would share. First of all (and of course it is in the first post if you read it) the HP SAS expander needs another controller card to function properly. Since I had already ordered the LSI SAS2008 I went ahead and used that. So my...
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    Onboard SATA III vs HBA card for 6Gb/s drives

    Hey Tibrebour, Here are the parts I've got for the build so far: Case: NORCO RPC-4220 Mobo: ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Ram: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 Power Supply: CORSAIR Enthusiast Series...
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    Onboard SATA III vs HBA card for 6Gb/s drives

    Thanks for the feedback Red Falcon. That is the way I am leaning, but it is nice to bounce the ideas off other with more experience then I and get confirmation. I think I'll buy the HP and run it all through the expander. If anyone else has feedback, I'd be glad to hear it.
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    Onboard SATA III vs HBA card for 6Gb/s drives

    Hello Everyone! I wish I had found this forum a few days ago, lots of great information in here regarding bigger storage installs. Here is the short version of my question: I am building out a 16 drive file server mix of using either a combination of on board sata3 & LSI SAS2008 card OR...
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