SAS controller

terrorgen

Bought a used SAS HDD by mistake.
It is really not worth returning it with the shipping fees these days, so thinking about making use of it by purchasing a SAS controller for my at home dedi.

What would be a good SAS PCIe controller?

Budget: $50

Calin

Hello , depend , what type of server you have?

My i m usage lot of p420 / p822 , but again , this work only for HP Server , well depend what type of server have

Regards,
Calin

terrorgen

Just a regular PC

nullnothere

Get one of the LSI 9201-4i or 9201-8i models (or something like this). With the correct break out cables you can connect SAS and SATA drives to it (for future expansion) and it should be right within your budget as well. They are good cards that can be flashed into IT mode (if you don't buy them pre flashed) and they're very handy for any NAS builds you may consider in the future (think ZFS!).

terrorgen

Will this work?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204290028484?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ea0Fq4Z_QdO&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=JnwXZ4bqRZa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

CamoYoshi

@terrorgen said:
Will this work?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/204290028484?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ea0Fq4Z_QdO&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=JnwXZ4bqRZa&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Yup, that will work nicely.

terrorgen

looks like this card has RAID functions as well. Can it be turned off?

nullnothere

@terrorgen said: Can it be turned off?

Should be - by flashing to IT mode it becomes a vanilla HBA and will just "pass through" the disks.

If you prefer to buy pre-flashed cards, take a look at https://www.ebay.com/str/theartofserver - a good quality seller of such ready-to-use cards.

beanman109

@terrorgen said:
looks like this card has RAID functions as well. Can it be turned off?

Pretty easy to disable on this card aslong as you can boot into a USB on the machine - https://flemmingss.com/how-to-flash-it-mode-firmware-to-hp-lsi-sas-9212-4i-controller-card/