November 30, 201015 yr Will this work with unRAID? http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/lsisas3081er/ It seems cheaper then the supermicro 8x SATA HBA. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.51316 Although google checkout shows the price as x2 higher !?
November 30, 201015 yr The LSI is a Hardware RAID card, not a simple SATA Expansion card like the SuperMicro. Therefore, I'm not surprised that you would pay double for it. The dealextreme price you found is surprising. I don't know if the LSI card will work with unRAID or not. Doesn't seem worth the risk in my opinion. By the way, you can generally find the Supermicro card for under $100. Here's what I always do: Find it on Superbiiz Use this site to find a Superbiiz promo code. The current one is $10 off, but they often have $15 off ones as well. I've bought the Supermicro card for as low as $96 this way. Superbiiz seems to consistently be the cheapest place to obtain the Supermicro card, and their customer service is great as well.
November 30, 201015 yr It looks like a LSI1068e based card, which means no official support as of now. Some progress has been made by SK to make this work.UnRAID on VMWare ESXi with Raw Device Mapping Also a couple of threads in the Hardware forum on this chipset based cards.
February 9, 201115 yr Author Is there a future for this LSI 1068E-based controller under unRAID v5.0 ?
February 9, 201115 yr I believe they do work now (there is still no temperature reporting and perhaps other small quirks) but this probably will be fixed one day. You probably will have to make sure the card is flashed with the non-RAID "IT" firmware.
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