koolaidkitten
Gawd
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I don't know much about mass storage cards really so I was hoping someone could help me out. I currently am using LSI 8308ELP but I need to eventually move away from these because they do not support 4TB drives.
My needs are:
1. Compatible with ESXi 5.5
2. Compatible with 4TB+ drives
3. I don't actually need RAID. I just run all my drives single.
4. Would prefer to have SAS SFF8087 connectors because the backplane of the chassis i'm using uses those and it looks cleaner, but I could deal with using SAS to sata breakout cables. (or any other cable changers if need be)
5. I would prefer If I could get a single card that has 4 connectors but I can settle for getting 2 cards with two connectors each. (I need this as a whole to be able to support 16 drives.)
6. I like cheap, I don't mind buying used. But I would love to keep this under 300$
7. PCIexpress interface. I have 2 x16 slots available.
Thankyou for reading.
My needs are:
1. Compatible with ESXi 5.5
2. Compatible with 4TB+ drives
3. I don't actually need RAID. I just run all my drives single.
4. Would prefer to have SAS SFF8087 connectors because the backplane of the chassis i'm using uses those and it looks cleaner, but I could deal with using SAS to sata breakout cables. (or any other cable changers if need be)
5. I would prefer If I could get a single card that has 4 connectors but I can settle for getting 2 cards with two connectors each. (I need this as a whole to be able to support 16 drives.)
6. I like cheap, I don't mind buying used. But I would love to keep this under 300$
7. PCIexpress interface. I have 2 x16 slots available.
Thankyou for reading.