SAS controller

[Richard Kolb II]

How about if I just want to hook one drive up long enough to copy data off
of it?  Anything specific I should know?  I've seen some cards on ebay for
under $50, and I like the idea of being able to use it for SATA afterwards,
but I don't want to waste my cash.


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Shawn O'Shea <shawn at eth0.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> +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
>>
>
>
>   Depends on the LSI controller, and what OS release your running.  I
> found LSI function and performance on 10.04 to be not all that great.  On
> my current systems, I've removed all dedicated controllers and now go with
> pure software raid.
>
> --
> -- Thomas
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