February 3, 201412 yr Hi Folks, Does anyone know if this card works with unRaid? Will it support 3tb or 4tb drives? Product Link: http://sas.lsi.cn/channel/products/megaraid/sassata/8208ELP/ User Guide: http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/Obsolete/Obsolete%20Common%20Files/mr_sas_stor_ug.pdf Thanks!
March 26, 201412 yr Hi, Did you ever find out if this is unRAID friendly and supports > 2tb disks? There's a seller on Amazon who are selling them for £42.99 which is a pretty decent price. The Amazon page suggests that it supports > 2TB. http://www.amazon.co.uk/PCI-E-MegaRAID-8208ELP-Port-Controller/dp/B00J96PSCG/ref=sr_1_127?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1395839472&sr=1-127&keywords=lsi#productDetails At that price it might even be worth a punt just to see if it works in unRAID. Cheers
March 26, 201412 yr Following this discussion it should work since it supports passthrough. According to spec it is the LSISAS1068 chip that is supported by unRAID OS. These RAID controllers support 64-bit logical block addressing (LBA), which makes it possible to connect a large number of drives to the RAID controller, directly and through expanders. This is confusing because I learned that the 1068 is not supporting big drives... Perhaps this is different? Please report back if you find out! Does it support spindown in unRAID and does it support drive temps?
March 26, 201412 yr I'm looking for something to replace an IBM M1015 (flashed to an LSL firmware) that for some reason started displaying thousands and thousands of read errors in the web interface whilst I was rebuilding another disk that I had replaced in the array. :o Scary business, as I thought that I might have possibly lost two drives. Whipped out the M1015 and replaced it with an old Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8, booted and everything was fine. Only had the M1015 for a couple of months. It may have been a cabling issue but there's no way I'm going to put it back in any server I have. It came from China, so whether I get a replacement is anyone's guess. Do I even want a replacement for it? I think I might give this SAS8208ELP a go and see what happens. I originally swapped out my AOC-SASLP-MV8 for the M1015 because I wanted to start using S3 standby and the AOC-SASLP_MV8 doesn't support it. Hmmmm, let's give it go... I'll post my results. Cheers Vin
April 4, 201412 yr Following this discussion it should work since it supports passthrough. According to spec it is the LSISAS1068 chip that is supported by unRAID OS. These RAID controllers support 64-bit logical block addressing (LBA), which makes it possible to connect a large number of drives to the RAID controller, directly and through expanders. This is confusing because I learned that the 1068 is not supporting big drives... Perhaps this is different? Please report back if you find out! Does it support spindown in unRAID and does it support drive temps? http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7451.msg134375#msg134375 I do not think anything has changed. I am not an LSI fan.
April 4, 201412 yr Are you saying that you think this card will support 3tb and 4tb disks? No. This card can take a pair of 2 TB physical disks and make them appear as a single 4 TB disk to the OS, but it does not support physical drives larger than 2.2 TB.
April 4, 201412 yr Ah, that's a bit of a showstopper then. Good job it's coming from an Amazon trader, so should be pretty easy to pop back in the post and get a refund...once it arrives.
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