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Cheap Lenovo 430-16i flashed to LSI 9400-16i tri mode Nvme support


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Heya guys I will write a guide up but its basically grabbing a brand new 430-16i which is close to half the price of a second hand 9400-16i and flashing with the 9400-16i firmware. Ebay is flooded with these hba's and all you need to do is grab the newest lsi 9400-16i firmware and flash in an efi shell. I used clover as a usb bootable efi shell and used its command prompt. I mounted the clover bootable disk with "map -r" next "fs0:" then just ls to lsit dir cd to change basic nix commands. You need the lastest storcli.efi from broadcom, its the flashing util and firmware for the 9400-16i which is under legacy. I found the guide on github googling "430-16i github" just download the lsi 9400 frimware instead of lenovo and follow. I will write a full step by step guide when i get a chance as it will save alot of people money. For a u.2 nvme cable i got mine of aliexpress searching for broadcom u.2 and getting the one with hd mini sas :)trimode.thumb.png.59bf657d35ff33f308bfa029040ab8c6.pnglsi.thumb.jpg.9260d5acabc508002bc3f4342247f9c2.jpg

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No dramas ill link to a few guides when i get a chance, though theres enough pinned in this section to follow. It's been working great and i'am grabbing another U.2 to nvme caddy for a second nvme soon. The main reason i put this here as the lenovo 430-16i and 8i don't support tri-mode which takes the price down alot, though with a flash there full blown 9400's again :)

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