which sas/sata raid card between these?

[sdadept]

I can't tell much difference between these two cards other than a bit of price. I'm going to use this to drive 4 2tb hitachi drives in raid 5 services several active VM's. I'm buying a SAS card so that I can add drives and have this card be useful in the future.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116109

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118107


I plan to use the card in this

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101315

 

[epimetheus]

Both those LSI cards look very similar to me. They both use the same processor, have the same amount of RAM, etc. The 9750 seems to newer and can support 96 devices total, verses 32 on the 9260. The 9750 seems to have come from the 3ware developement side where the 9260 is a product of LSI developement. LSI and 3ware were direct competitors (in this department) until LSI bought 3ware. So really, I'd guess it's take your pick.

Maybe somebody else can enlighten me if I'm off base?

 

[john4200]

I wonder whether the 3ware card comes with 3ware-like management software. If so, I'd go with the 3ware, since I like 3ware's management software better than LSI's.

 

[sdadept]

epim, I think you are right. That's the rub here. I'm trying to figure out which would be the better of the two.

btw, I assume they are both hardware raid right?

I need to figure this out as I have 4.5k worth of hardware que'd up @ newegg to purchase right now.

 

[epimetheus]

From looking at the download pages on LSI's website, the 9750 uses 3ware management software (3DM2), the 9260 uses LSI software (Megaraid). I've always liked the 3ware software better.