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Dell Precision T3500 Raid Controller

You could get a significantly cheaper sata 3 card then. How many drives?
 
What cables came with your T3500? You should be able to add a used Dell Perc H700 for next to nothing (~$40US for just the card, more with cables, etc.). It's a great (for the era) LSI RAID card with a Dell badge on it. The only restrictions are:
1. Needs to be reflashed if you want to use it in non-Dell hardware (not a problem for you)
2. Needs an official firmware update to make it work with non-Dell drives (easily done).
3. It's a SAS/SATA card so you will need SAS to SATA breakout cables if your T3500 didn't come with them. Fortunately these are also cheap on eBay.

Places like /r/homelab /r/DataHoarder and servethehome.com (forums) will have more info should you need it

Edit: I forgot to say be careful when looking at the H700. A lot of the ones that were made were specifically for a unique Dell slot in the servers. You can get normal PCI-E 2.0 8x(?) slot ones too.
 
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There are much cheaper options to be had, i just picked up a lsi 9211-8i(was a SUN server pull) already flashed to P20 firmware(the HBA non raid firmware) off ebay for $40 CDN
 
Rifter0876 said:
There are much cheaper options to be had, i just picked up a lsi 9211-8i(was a SUN server pull) already flashed to P20 firmware(the HBA non raid firmware) off ebay for $40 CDN
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Rift, will that card give me 6gbs speeds out of my SSD's?
 
Thanks Rift. Grabbed an IBM ServeRaid M1015 off the bay. I'll flash it and give it a whirl.
 
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