February 11, 20233 yr I bought the card below and was using it fine. I replaced it with an HP H240 HBA and am using it now but feel like it is slower. Both cards are connected to 6 x 1tb ssds. Which one is actually faster? Still learning and appreciate responses. The one I have now: (6x sata to 6x sata) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B097NKJSDC/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The HP H240 (2x sas to 6x sata) https://hwf.com.ua/content/uploads/files/quickspecs-hp-h240-smart-host-bus-adapter.pdf Thanks!
February 16, 20233 yr HP will have more bandwidth, but check that trim works, never tried one of these.
February 16, 20233 yr The H240 has (8 physical links x 12Gb/s) also from the PDF Mix-and-match SAS and SATA hard drives; deploy drive technology as needed Looks like a firmware update is needed to support the SSDs better. What are these SSDs that this HBA can not saturate, but the Asmedia ASM1166 can ?
February 16, 20233 yr Author It was anecdotal , but I did run crystal diskmark in a vm on both and the HP was noticeably slower. A better question then maybe is what do you guys recommend instead of either? They are WD Green 1TBs. Thanks so much!!!
February 16, 20233 yr My current build is combining many parts so I would use the Asmedia, after testing, to verify stability under full load. For new builds, if I spend new money, that investment goes into NVMe PCI-e for the newer chipset on the drive, lower latency higher IOPS If I have leftover cash and space inside the machine, I can put any cheap thing that performs stable after testing. If I need to swap specific drives often, I like Broadcom latest chipsets with support and firmware updates. If I don't want to buy that, I like the latest AMD sata controllers.
February 16, 20233 yr Author I thought Trim was already enabled for btfrs? These are all in pools. I hadnt thought of NVME but getting enough would require more hardware.
February 16, 20233 yr 38 minutes ago, Trackpads said: I thought Trim was already enabled for btfrs? It is, but it's not supported by the controller it won't work, type fstrim -v /mnt/mountpoint and see if it's successful
February 21, 20233 yr Already answered, the HBA has more bandwidth, since trim is supported it's a superior controller.
February 21, 20233 yr Author ah ok, that trim test above was with the asmedia. I will try it with the HBA this weekend. Thanks so much!!!
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