SAS controller

[Shawn O'Shea]

+1 for LSI controllers. Dell has OEMed these for years and on their
high-end desktops are moving from Dell PERC ("special OEMed LSI)
controllers to the straight LSI controllers.

I have some of the 9211 cards installed in a bunch of servers:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118114

-Shawn


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:

> After you get the data off, you can use a SAS card with SATA drives.  You
> can't mix SAS and SATA on the same controller.  SAS has speed and
> redundancy benefits over SATA.
>
> I've liked LSI controllers.  They're well supported and supply a number of
> OEMs.  You can often get the re branded cards on eBay for less.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Richard Kolb II <richard.kolb at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone, I have a SAS hard disk that came out of a friends
>> workstation.  The workstation died and they didn't get to backup their hard
>> drive first.  Does anyone have a SAS controller card for sale?
>>
>> And to be honest, I'm not really up to date with SAS and SCSI in general,
>> if anyone has any tips or anything to say before I go out and buy a
>> controller card, please let me know.
>>
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