Hello HardForum,
I've recently ordered myself a chassi from supermicro, the SC836BE16-R920B and now I've began to think about what controlelrcard I need for it, it will obviously need to have a 8087 connection internally, and since I will start off with "just" 5 drives, I dont feel the need to have an external connector as of now.
I will be running this card with Ubuntu, but I guess most cards have support by linux kernel?
I've been browsing some cards over at LSI and I have no idea what the differences are, I will use software (mdadm) raid6, so I don'r really need a card with raid capability I guess.
Is there any big performance differences for the setup I'm looking for as long as it's a pci-e x8 card in my mind it should be able to use all the potential of an single 8087 (4*6gbit = 24gbit) also my network will bottleneck way before the harddrives (and controller) does.
TL;DR;
Bought new chassi, need a simple controllercard with a single 8087 connector
I've recently ordered myself a chassi from supermicro, the SC836BE16-R920B and now I've began to think about what controlelrcard I need for it, it will obviously need to have a 8087 connection internally, and since I will start off with "just" 5 drives, I dont feel the need to have an external connector as of now.
I will be running this card with Ubuntu, but I guess most cards have support by linux kernel?
I've been browsing some cards over at LSI and I have no idea what the differences are, I will use software (mdadm) raid6, so I don'r really need a card with raid capability I guess.
Is there any big performance differences for the setup I'm looking for as long as it's a pci-e x8 card in my mind it should be able to use all the potential of an single 8087 (4*6gbit = 24gbit) also my network will bottleneck way before the harddrives (and controller) does.
TL;DR;
Bought new chassi, need a simple controllercard with a single 8087 connector
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