Abzstrak Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 (edited) does anyone know of a very small lsi controller that will support 8 sata drives? I found the IBM 9211-4i ones on ebay, they look awesome, but only support 4 drives (https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-H1110-81Y4494-9211-4i-FW-LSI-9211-8i-P20-IT-Mode-for-ZFS-FreeNAS-unRAID/224011559187?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160811114145%26meid%3D7d7010ad5e704b9cba023414e6d02868%26pid%3D100667%26rk%3D8%26rkt%3D8%26mehot%3Dlo%26sd%3D303521684314%26itm%3D224011559187%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2334524%26brand%3DIBM&_trksid=p2334524.c100667.m2042) I need it as small as possible as I'll be using it on a M.2 GPU riser board and it's in a very small ITX case. I'm open to chipsets other than LSI, but no asmedia/jmicron/si junk Edited May 24, 2020 by Abzstrak Quote Link to comment
SidebandSamurai Posted May 26, 2020 Share Posted May 26, 2020 That card is only a 4 port card. Those models are only designed to fit into small enclosures. You should be looking at LSI 9240-8I 6Gbps SAS HBA. Such as this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-9240-8I-6Gbps-SAS-HBA-LSI-9211-8i-FW-P20-IT-Mode-ZFS-FreeNAS-unRAID-US/133123367829?_trkparms=aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D225074%26meid%3D0d2fc60252eb4d1c8404562cfd8f2dd2%26pid%3D100012%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D224011559187%26itm%3D133123367829%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675%26algv%3DSimplAMLv5PairwiseWebWithBBEV2bDemotion%26brand%3DLSI&_trksid=p2047675.c100012.m1985 Yes its a bigger card but these cards are designed to be installed in servers and handle 8 drives. If you have a very small case, I would recommend a nice mid tower. I got 15 drives in mine. If you only have 1x pcie slot I would recommend NOT using that slot as it performs very poorly with hard drives. You could experience excessive pre-clear times because there are not enough data lines to support your drives. You have not told us what motherboard you are using, or the case. I am curious what you are using. Quote Link to comment
Abzstrak Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 yeah, I know its 4 port, thats why I said I like it but its only supports 4 drives. I appreciate the help, but if anyone has any knowledge of a really samll lsi controller, please let me know. I'm not changing the ITX case for a few additional 2.5" drives :) Quote Link to comment
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