cholzer Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 (edited) I am building an Unraid system for a friend and I was wondering which HBA to choose. It has to support (up to) 7 HDD's and 1 SSD (cache) If possible I'd like to avoid the stressful experience I had with switching/flashing my SAS 9300-8i to IT-Mode 😅 Edited January 15, 2021 by cholzer Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021  12 minutes ago, cholzer said: avoid the stressful experience I had with switching/flashing my SAS 9300-8i to IT-Mode 😅 9300-8i is IT mode only, and a good option, though SSD needs to support deterministic read after trim or it won't be trimmed. 1 Quote Link to comment
cholzer Posted January 16, 2021 Author Share Posted January 16, 2021 (edited) On 1/15/2021 at 3:32 PM, JorgeB said: Â 9300-8i is IT mode only, and a good option, though SSD needs to support deterministic read after trim or it won't be trimmed. Ah so if I would not have bought an LSI SAS 3008 and instead went straight for an 9300-8i then I would not have had to flash the IT BIOS? Cool, great to know! So you would still go for an 9300-8i in 2021, right? Edited January 16, 2021 by cholzer Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 23 minutes ago, cholzer said: LSI SAS 3008 This isn't an LSI model, it's the chip, the 9300-8i uses that chip but it comes as IT mode only, some other models with the same chip come with RAID firmware instead. 1 Quote Link to comment
cholzer Posted January 16, 2021 Author Share Posted January 16, 2021 1 hour ago, JorgeB said: This isn't an LSI model, it's the chip, the 9300-8i uses that chip but it comes as IT mode only, some other models with the same chip come with RAID firmware instead. So if I would get this one then it comes with IT-Mode not IR-Mode? https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9300-8i Quote Link to comment
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