14 Nov
2020
14 Nov
'20
3:11 p.m.
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 4:57 AM hw hw@gc-24.de wrote:
On Wed, 2020-11-11 at 16:38 -0700, Warren Young wrote:
And where do you get cost-efficient cards that can do JBOD?
$69, 8 SATA/SAS ports: https://www.newegg.com/p/0ZK-08UH-0GWZ1
That says it's for HP. So will you still get firmware updates once the warranty is expired? Does it exclusively work with HP hardware?
And are these good?
That specific card is a bad choice, it's the very obsolete SAS1068E chip, which was SAS 1.0, with max 2gb per disk.
Cards based on the SAS 2008, 2308, and 3008 chips are a much better choice.
Any oem card with these chips can be flashed with generic LSI/Broadcom IT firmware.