August 23, 201510 yr I have an IBM BR10i raid card/controller for sale. I've already done the work of flashing it to LSI IT mode (the 'good firmware' mod for unraid). Includes 1 SFF-8087 to 4x SATA connector breakout cable to connect 4 SATA drives, and a full height mounting bracket (this is what 99% of users will need). Just grab another of these cables (~$8 on amazon) to connect the other 4 ports. Works great with unraid, I've been using it flawlessly for the past 3+ years. I'm only selling it as I'm upgrading to a fully hot-swapping 24 bay case. This is functionally equivalent to a flashed IBM m1015, except that it only provides full support for drives up to 2TB. For a 3TB+ drive, it will only access 2.2TB of the drive. I just used this card to mount my older, smaller drives, and used my motherboard SATA ports for my bigger drives. Worked great for me, as I figure I'll always have a smattering of old drives around! Asking $50+shipping for the raid card + breakout cable. PM me if interested
August 23, 201510 yr Thanks for being honest stating that this drive doesn't support drives over 2T. This is a pretty big limitation in these days of 4T, 6T, and 8T drives. But you are right, for a backup array trying to utilize a bunch of older 1T and 2T drives, this would work well.
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