Does anyone know if the SuperMicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 supports the Intel RAID expander card RES2SV240?

 

I already have the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8's so would prefer not having to buy an IBM M1015 to replace an otherwise perfectly functional SAS/SATA card.

FYI, I went ahead and purchased a M1015.

 

I only have a week to work on the box when I get home for Spring Break starting this coming Friday, which includes having to rebuild parity with in incoming 8TB drive (about a day), then replace a 4TB with the previous 6TB parity drive (just over a day), then run a parity check to make sure the expansion was accurately completed (about 2 days).

 

If I wait until then to find out the SM HBA doesn't support port multiplication, then I'm screwed as I don't have time to wait for the new board (while spending a hefty price to get it overnighted).

 

I will first see if the SM HBA does work with the Expander card and report back my findings.

I can now confirm that the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 is indeed compatible with the RES2SV240.

 

I now have 2 SAS2LP plus the RES2SV240 connecting my 24 SATA drives with no issues thus far, having completed a data-rebuild on one drive.

 

Even though the mobo has 4 PCIe slots, only 2 are x8, and for some unknown reason, I would get rare and intermittent errors with any SAS2LP in the x4 slots as I started upgrading to greater than 2TB drives.