On Sat, Nov 14, 2020, 4:57 AM hw <hw at 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.