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to anyone trawling the depths looking for answers, the Lenovo 930-8i works perfectly in my system with a normal consumer motherboard (Z490, in the pci-e x4 slot with a GPU running x16 in its own slot). seagate consumer HDDS also.. so highly recommended if you can get your hands on one cheap on...

Thats interesting.. Perhaps CacheCade would work as an unsupported feature either through Megaraid Storage Manager or through a reflash..

I believe that it is going to work, as per ComSpitfire2020's experience. I am yet to test mine out as I am still awaiting the arrival of cables from a certain online store that seems to take months to ship! I will post an update of my experience here then. regarding flashing, no idea, I...

Ahh thank you! An ebay seller has confirmed this for me also so I have placed my order. Hopefully anyone googling can now find this thread! Long live hardware raid!!!

It doesnt seem that IBM/Lenovo have vendor locked, unlike at least Dell.. the reason I want to skip beyond the 5200 series is the lack of raid6 without the FOD (firmware on demand) which seems like a headache... this takes me to your second point, a 930-8i is substantially cheaper from ebay...

Hello, I am hoping to gain further clarification around the 930-8i raid card. I have had various raid cards since the perc 5/i, through IBM 5015 and various other LSI varients.. I now have the itch to upgrade.. I am currently running raid6, and want to continue to (yes I know ZFS is better...

Hey! No issues using the 930-8i in a non Lenovo system and with any generic drives I take it?? Cheers

Just wondering as I don't seem to be able to find any information regarding TLER/ERC on the 7200.14 Barracuda's, do these drives have this or will there be an issue with raid? I am using a couple of perc 5/i's which have seagate 5900rpm 2TB drives from around a year ago, wanting to expand the...

thanks guys, ill get onto it later :)

hi guys, quick background on system x48 mobo, gtx275 primary gpu driving 1920*1200 24", then a 9600gt to run my 2x 19"s 1280*1024 either side.. running beautifully as usual on 182.50.... for some reason something was annoying me in a game so i thought hell ill update drivers, to, 185.85...

awesome thanks, yes i run 2 identical drives in raid1 via mobo software raid for system drive..

Hi guys, long time reader, first time poster, here it goes: I am building a new server, everythings done short of hdds.. with a dell perc 5/i i plan on running 8* 1.5TB drives in raid5, giving me 10.5TB array. Will windows 2003 server standard 32bit support such an array? i will...