Oh Canada - Possible price error for 8-port SAS/SATA RAID cntr on www.dell.ca

[bcbgboy13]

More info in the following post:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4990.msg59982#msg59982

 

Not posted elsewhere - lets keep it here!

[bcbgboy13]

Will have to add this update as unfortunately only the 341-5793 (the one for DELL Precision T3400/T3500?T5400) may be usable by a standard motherboards, the other two are using proprietary mounting.

So you will have to buy only this part below(still C$79.99 compared to US$199 on dell.com)

http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/controllers/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&sku=341-5793

 

And these cards use different cables  - you will need SFF-8484 (host) to 4 SATA cable.

Dealextreme appears to have a very nuce one for $11.90 (shipped) -with locking SATA connectors - SKU is 1940 (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1940)

Cheaper versions (at $7) are availble from EBay.

 

And I am still not sure if these can be used for our purpose.

 

[Shurik]

Will have to add this update as unfortunately only the 341-5793 (the one for DELL Precision T3400/T3500?T5400) may be usable by a standard motherboards, the other two are using proprietary mounting.

So you will have to buy only this part below(still C$79.99 compared to US$199 on dell.com)

http://accessories.dell.com/sna/products/controllers/productdetail.aspx?c=ca&l=en&s=dhs&cs=cadhs1&sku=341-5793

 

And these cards use different cables  - you will need SFF-8484 (host) to 4 SATA cable.

Dealextreme appears to have a very nuce one for $11.90 (shipped) -with locking SATA connectors - SKU is 1940 (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1940)

Cheaper versions (at $7) are availble from EBay.

 

And I am still not sure if these can be used for our purpose.

 

 

Hi bcbgboy13,

 

Did you happen to try the card that suppose to be compatible with regular MBs? I find this item very interesting, but not sure if it would work with my H57 Gigabyte board in JBOD configuration... Any news would be welcome!

[bcbgboy13]

I've just updated mine system this past weekend to Biostar TA790GXE 128M plus 4GB ECC memory.

The primary PCIe x 16 slot is populated with AOC-SASLP-MV8 (only 3 hard drives on the first channel with total of 9 hard drives)

The Dell controller is in the secondary PCIe x16 slot.

 

So far everything is going OK and I do not see any glaring errors or complains from unRAID in the syslog. Very fast parity check too.

 

However I am unable to get into the Dell setup by pressing Ctrl-C. I do see the firmware revision, message that I will get into the menu after initialization but nothing happens after that and I go straight into unRaid (and I do not know if this is because I do not have any HD attached as I do not have any cable - two have been just ordered but probably at least two weeks until I receive them from China or simply this configuration wont work for many possible reasons....)

 

I will update this post once I get the cables.

[DocBlock]

I was going to pick one of these up to play with, but I can't seem to figure out how to get Dell Canada to ship to a US address.