Mystery Adaptec / ICP Raid Cards on Ebay

[tojoski]

I stumbled across these on ebay:

Adaptec ICP5805SL SAS/SATA Controller New

I realize ICP is just rebranded Adaptec.. and the certain models cross over, but I can find no reference to these cards anywhere on the web

The ICP5808BL is basically an Adaptec 3085, but the ICP5805SL sure looks a heck of a lot like an Adaptec 5085..

http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/raid/sas_raid/SAS-5085/

Anybody got an idea? $95 bucks is sure tempting

 

[Thor]

your right.. looks the same, nearist i can find is for the 5805bl... trying to do any googling bombards your with insane clown posse crap.

there is some differences thought, slight headers differences and a chip (looks like a prom) is of a different type.. other wise.. hard to say...

ask the seller for more info?

 

[Blue Fox]

Even though I'm not a big fan of Adaptec, $100 is quite a deal. With a SAS expander you would have a nice cheap hardware RAID setup.

 

[pjkenned]

Looks like a 5085 w/ 256MB of RAM like the supermicro rebrand 5805 UIO had.

 

[tojoski]

I got an answer back from Adaptec this morning,

They're sample cards, and cannot be updated.

 

[drescherjm]

I assume they are not even legal to sell like Intel ES chips.

 

[Blue Fox]

Not surprising. Adaptec samples tend to pop up on eBay once in a while.