Searching 8 Port (dumb) SATA/SAS Controller

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Hello everyone

I was reading here for some time. So I decided to coaless some harddrives into one homebuild ZFS storage server.

Therefor I have one question regarding the Raid Controller

I need a recomandation for a good (dumb) Raid Card wich is capable of adressing at least 8x 3TB harddrives (sadly the INTEL SASUC8I isnt't).

Does any body Know a good, not to expensive solution?
I would prefer Intel due to my previous good experience with this RAID controllers if possible.

thank you in advance.
 
Not Intel, but the M1015s are very popular and widely used. I have two in my server, each was $70 or 75 on ebay. I wound up not flashing them to the IT firmware since I couldnt in my Supermicro board. From what I could read there is no real downside to not flashing them.
 
+1 for the M1015 - using four of them and they're great, particularly for the price.
 
Not Intel, but the M1015s are very popular and widely used. I have two in my server, each was $70 or 75 on ebay. I wound up not flashing them to the IT firmware since I couldnt in my Supermicro board. From what I could read there is no real downside to not flashing them.

same as mine on Linux/Centos, just flashed the newest firmware from LSI, the card will set jbod for all unconfigured drive.no need to flash to IT.. .
 
+1 for the M1015 - using four of them and they're great, particularly for the price.

Could you let me know if you managed to run more than one of the M1015 cards in the same machine? ( I am considering running two at a time on one MB ).

P.S. does the card do staggered spin up (and possible spin down for JBOD dirves)?

Thanks.
 
Could you let me know if you managed to run more than one of the M1015 cards in the same machine? ( I am considering running two at a time on one MB ).

P.S. does the card do staggered spin up (and possible spin down for JBOD dirves)?

Thanks.

I have two in a Supermicro X9SCL+-F. I have read that three will work which is good as I am planning on adding a third soon. As for the staggered spin up, I dont know. I have 8x 3.5", 4x 2.5" drives, and 5 SSDs all on one PSU and no issues with them all spinning up at the same time so I never really looked into the settings yet.
 
I have three working in a Supermicro X9SCM-F with no problems other than not being able to flash to IT mode. I used an older AMD machine I had laying around to do the flashing then tossed them in the X9SCM-F. Works beautifully on my WHS 2011 machine.
 
@thedge Not Intel? Why? I've very very good experience with the cheap Intel SASUC8i w/ IT firmware flashed on it.
 
@thedge Not Intel? Why? I've very very good experience with the cheap Intel SASUC8i w/ IT firmware flashed on it.

He wasn't saying to not use Intel. He was saying the M1015 is not made by Intel.
 
I'll chime in (albeit a little late) for the M1015 - quick easy flash and go. Only note is that the flash for it doesn't work on certain motherboards, so be prepared if that comes up.
 
I have 4x M1015's running on a X9SCM-f.

2 of those are running with Intel RES2SV240 SAS expanders.
 
Ive asked earlier if M1015 supports staggered spinup, and people have said: yes, it supports staggered spinup.
 
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