On 10/7/2015 1:30 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > No. I'm the one who got the quote and set up the order for my managers, > and I know what it's got: the ethernet connection is to the internal > webserver to manage the RAID. the 712S I have is dual-path SAS for data. then yeah, you'll need a plain SAS2 external HBA card. If your server is older, with PCI-Express v1 or v2, then a LSI 9211-8e or similar would be fine (IBM M1015 are a common cheap OE version of the same thing), as long as you flash that to be in "IT" (Initiator-Target) mode as they usually come in IR (Integrated Raid). If the server is PCI-Express v3, then you'll want a newer card based on the LSI 2308 chip, such as the HP H221 I mentioned) -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz