May 10, 20188 yr Are they good/bad? Can we operate them in IT mode? Any performance advantages over the old 8i controllers? Thnx
May 10, 20188 yr If you are talking about the 9201-16i they are IT mode only cards so they are plug and play with unRAID. I have many I replaced most of my 8i with them because I can use fewer slots for HBAs allowing me to use other PCIe cards. I just plugged them in connected the drives/backplanes to them and booted unRAID and had a working system.
May 10, 20188 yr Author 24 minutes ago, BobPhoenix said: If you are talking about the 9201-16i they are IT mode only cards so they are plug and play with unRAID. I have many I replaced most of my 8i with them because I can use fewer slots for HBAs allowing me to use other PCIe cards. I just plugged them in connected the drives/backplanes to them and booted unRAID and had a working system. Hey, Thnx a lot for the informative response. Which particular controller did you purchase? Can you provide a link? Thnx
May 10, 20188 yr 6 hours ago, Mat1926 said: Hey, Thnx a lot for the informative response. Which particular controller did you purchase? Can you provide a link? Thnx I got a used server pull from eBay. The last purchase was from this seller not that there was anything wrong with the other sellers that I purchased my other 9201-16i's from: https://www.ebay.com/sch/svcheck2/m.html?ssPageName=&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2654 I would NOT buy a new one from China off of eBay even if they were cheaper that the server pulls. Too many reports of counterfeit cards going that way for me from both the 8i and 16i card varieties. You might also consider the 16e (the external type) as they are usually MUCH cheaper. But then you have to route cables back inside the case and it takes a different connector to the card. That is why I went with the internal - easier to use but more expensive variety. Another possibility for more money yet is a newer version that uses a 23xx+ chipset verses the 2116 of the 9201-16i. @johnnie.black might be able to give you an exact model number - I don't own any of those.
May 11, 20188 yr Community Expert 9 hours ago, BobPhoenix said: Another possibility for more money yet is a newer version that uses a 23xx+ chipset verses the 2116 of the 9201-16i. @johnnie.black might be able to give you an exact model number - I don't own any of those. I don't know of any 16i based on the SAS2308 chipset, there is a 16e, the 9206-16e, there are SAS3008 based 16i HBAs, but these are SAS3 so more expensive.
May 11, 20188 yr Author 2 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: I don't know of any 16i based on the SAS2308 chipset, there is a 16e, the 9206-16e, there are SAS3008 based 16i HBAs, but these are SAS3 so more expensive. Are you aware of any downsides of connecting 16 HDDs to a single card compared to 8 only?
May 11, 20188 yr Community Expert 6 minutes ago, Mat1926 said: Are you aware of any downsides of connecting 16 HDDs to a single card compared to 8 only? Depending on the disks used it can be a bottleneck on a PCIe 2.0 HBA, but not a significant one.
May 11, 20188 yr 15 hours ago, johnnie.black said: I don't know of any 16i based on the SAS2308 chipset, there is a 16e, the 9206-16e, there are SAS3008 based 16i HBAs, but these are SAS3 so more expensive. Thanks. I wondered if I had my chipset wrong.
May 12, 20188 yr I ran a LSI 9201-16i for awhile with 16 drives attached. It worked fine. Parity check speeds were good also.
June 25, 20197 yr On 5/25/2018 at 9:34 AM, Switchblade said: I'm looking to buy the LSI SAS 9400-16i. Anyone using this card? I know this is an older thread, but no, it does not work with unraid 6.7.2. I will submit a feature request to add the driver.
June 26, 20197 yr 2 hours ago, Switchblade said: That is why I went with the LSI 9305-24i I moved it to another slot and it works. Its just weird that it worked in Windows Server 2012 R2 in the previous slot, but not unraid.
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