Hi everyone,

I'm a long-time user (over 10 years at this point) and I'm still using Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 controller cards (two of them) plus my motherboard's onboard SATA connections, of course.

 

I'm in the process of rebuilding a bad parity drive and I'm getting about 65MB/s across 16 drives. Are there newer cards out there that will do better than this? Just wondering if my somewhat ancient hardware is still relevant.

 

Thz

Any LSI with a SAS2008/2308/3008/3408 chipset in IT mode, e.g., 9201-8i, 9211-8i, 9207-8i, 9300-8i, 9400-8i, etc and clones, like the Dell H200/H310 and IBM M1015, these latter ones need to be crossflashed.

The AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 is a better card, some on here have had problems with it, but always worked well for me.  I had AOC-SASLP-MV8, and the 2 is much faster.

I am using Adaptec (Microsemi) HBA 1000-8i and HBA 1100-16i cards.

Not the cheapest cards, but work flawless (you'll need Unraid 6.7 or later to use HBA 1100 series).

11 hours ago, TSM said:

The AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 is a better card

That controller is not recommended for a long time, true it works well for some, but there are far to many users with problems with it, including dropped drives for no reason and data corruption, so no one should buy one of those for Unraid, if you already own one and feel adventurous with your data then go ahead and try it.