TheFreemancer Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Today I have this motherboard with a BGA cpu: https://pt.aliexpress.com/item/32574624109.html It's a J1900 and has 13 sata ports. So I got from a friend a kind of new/old pc that is a i3 2120 with RX 550 gpu, so I could transcode content with Emby. But the motherboard doesn't have many sata ports, right now I'm using 10. I know those PCI-E to Sata adapters work, I'm wondering do I have to install any drivers to unraid for those to work? How many sata ports per PCI-E can you safely use? And when the PCI-E slots are over, what do you do? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 3 minutes ago, TheFreemancer said: I'm wondering do I have to install any drivers to unraid for those to work? No, as long as it's a supported controller, look for an LSI HBA, 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. 4 minutes ago, TheFreemancer said: How many sata ports per PCI-E can you safely use? Depends on the PCIe link width and speed, but generally for HDDs 8 to 16 is fine. 6 minutes ago, TheFreemancer said: And when the PCI-E slots are over, what do you do? You can use a SAS expander. Quote Link to comment
TheFreemancer Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 1 hour ago, johnnie.black said: No, as long as it's a supported controller, look for an LSI HBA, 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. Wow those cards are more expensive than my entire pc (except the hds), LOL. One of this: https://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-1242684193-placa-controladora-pcie-x4-6-portas-sata-3-6gbps-asmedia-v-_JM?quantity=1#position=5&type=item&tracking_id=f6a60fa4-6c4a-400e-bd37-3d22c91a339e or one of this: https://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-1133534691-placa-controladora-pci-e-sata-3-marvell-9215-4-portas-6gbps-_JM?quantity=1#position=2&type=item&tracking_id=f6a60fa4-6c4a-400e-bd37-3d22c91a339e Will not work? Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 (edited) Look on E-bay. Search term LSI IF you want to assure that you get one (plug and play) in the IT Mode (which Unraid requires) use the term LSI IT-mode On E-bay you are buying the vendor not the product. Buy from someone who has a established reputation and provides some sort of warranty. LSI is now owned by Broadcom and they are still making a limited product line of actual boards. However, they are still selling the chip sets. These chip sets are being used to manufacture counterfeit LSI branded boards in China. Quality is suspect to say the least. Some of the counterfeit shops may be using first-line components for the remaining parts and others may be using inferior components. The Used Dell and IBM parts are what they are purported to be--- removed from servers from retired server farms. Edited February 2, 2020 by Frank1940 Quote Link to comment
TheFreemancer Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 Sadly importing from Brazil is impossible, if the product costs $100 and shipping is $25, you will pay $125 of extra taxes making a $100 product cost $225. We are behind an iron curtain falsely advertised as to help the poor and used to sustain corruption. Besides that it will take 3 months to arrive if it's not stolen on the customs by the federal cops as it happened couple of times with me. Said that I'll try to look for something old used here. Thank you. Quote Link to comment
TheFreemancer Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 @johnnie.black Can you please look and tell me if any of this two would work? https://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-1338118102-controladora-fujitsu-9211-8i-lsisas2008-sassata-raid-_JM#position=1&type=item&tracking_id=20b2d38f-1fdf-48ca-b04d-d86e4b249932 or https://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-1005815432-dell-perc-h200-sas-pcie-8-port-raid-m1015-9211-8i-047mcv-_JM?quantity=1#position=1&type=item&tracking_id=59a5b035-2523-4991-ab6a-8fe9ba0b1afc Those are really expensive and there's the extra cable sas -> 4 sata to buy. And if both work, can you tell me which is the best? Quote Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Avoid anything with a Marvel controller in it. Quote Link to comment
TheFreemancer Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 Ok but what about that Fujitsu? It says it is a 9211-8i LSI SAS 2008. So I need to get that one, grab a sas to 4 sata plugs cables and flash it to IT mode? Is that it? And I flash it from inside unraid? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 Both listed will work, they might need to be crossflashed to LSI IT mode if not yet done, instructions for the Fujitsu are just a few posts below: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/57815-fujitsu-d2607-8i-crossflash-to-lsi-9211-8i/ 14 minutes ago, TheFreemancer said: grab a sas to 4 sata plugs cables and flash it to IT mode? Cable needs to be SFF-8087 SAS to SATA forward breakout cable, reverse breakout looks the same but won't work in this case. Quote Link to comment
TheFreemancer Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 Thank you very much Johnnie :)) Quote Link to comment
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