Aaron Arnold Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 Testing out unraid and was about to move it to my main system and start the process of coping over my drives and data. Then I thought I better check on compatibility of my sata card, only to find out that it is not recommended. So now I need to decided to try it and if it doesn't work then replace the card, or replaced the card before I copy every thing over. All the info about this card seems to be about year old, my first question is, is this still not a recommended card? and if not what are the consequences of using it?. My second question is what card should I replace it will, I use both sas ports with a break out cable on each, for a total of 8 drives, and then use the motherboard ports as well. So I was thinking if I have to replace it should I goto a 16port card if they are not cost prohibitive. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 6 hours ago, Aaron Arnold said: is this still not a recommended card? and if not what are the consequences of using it? Still not recommended, it can drop disks without a reason and in same cases gives always 5 errors when doing a parity check after a reboot, corrupting data. 6 hours ago, Aaron Arnold said: My second question is what card should I replace it will 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. Quote Link to comment
sjaak Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 i have 2 of them, it works but i can confirm they can be dropping hdd's offline. 2 weeks ago i lost 1 hdd (its not dead, just corrupt) and the 3 other connected hdd's did have 1k+ errors on the Unraid main page... i going to replace them with a LSI 9201-16i... (parity and cache devices are connected to MB directly) Quote Link to comment
Aaron Arnold Posted December 15, 2019 Author Share Posted December 15, 2019 Well just orders one my self of ebay, and will run with the current card until it arrives. hope nothing bad happens while I wait... Quote Link to comment
sjaak Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 45 minutes ago, Aaron Arnold said: Well just orders one my self of ebay, and will run with the current card until it arrives. hope nothing bad happens while I wait... me too, one of the 2 is running "OK" for about 2 years now, so i "trust" them another month before replace... Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.